Weird...

[yoyolll]

I was at the who's online page (because I stalk everyone) and it said a yahoo spider was logging in.

This thread will probably only take one post to explain and finish off but don't let that stop you.

 

[Capt. Zeroth]

Yahoo Slurp Spiders along with Google Bots constantly scourge the deepest corners of the Internet, always on a hunt for searched terms that they may add to their query lists. More simply put, they automatically brows the Internet and add pages and terms to the search lists. Nothing out of the norm.

 

[yoyolll]

Wait....

I think it was viewing the thread "Logging In". I'm not sure...

 

[Dakare]

I might have an explination:

Some people are too lazy (or odd) to type in the url into the nav bar, so they google or yahoo it instead. When they do that, it appears as a spider, and so they login from there.

 

[Targelion]

Yahoo Slurp Spiders along with Google Bots constantly scourge the deepest corners of the Internet, always on a hunt for searched terms that they may add to their query lists. More simply put, they automatically brows the Internet and add pages and terms to the search lists. Nothing out of the norm.

another thing that is on the list that the webbots are searching for are hints of the end of the world or major disasters or events in the future. they are reall accurate and have predicted a number of things including 9/11

 

[Capt. Zeroth]

A web crawler (also known as a web spider or web robot or - especially in the FOAF community - web scutter[1]) is a program or automated script which browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner. Other less frequently used names for web crawlers are ants, automatic indexers, bots, and worms.[2]
This process is called web crawling or spidering. Many sites, in particular search engines, use spidering as a means of providing up-to-date data. Web crawlers are mainly used to create a copy of all the visited pages for later processing by a search engine that will index the downloaded pages to provide fast searches. Crawlers can also be used for automating maintenance tasks on a website, such as checking links or validating HTML code. Also, crawlers can be used to gather specific types of information from Web pages, such as harvesting e-mail addresses (usually for spam).

PS: Targelion is a fool.