what are spiders

[Willz]

Just looked at who is online, and i seen loads of Yahoo Slurp Spider, google adsense spider and one from ask , what are they? :s

 

[Addis]

spiders :s

Programs running which index content on the site, Googlebots index content for the search listings, and Adsense I guess for the text adverts.

 

[zeus]

spiders :s

More the merrier :)

 

[Karanislove]

I think thats how they search so fast coz they are already watching all the websites..