# Wtf

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wtf/220242>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [March 24, 2007, 1:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wtf/220242 "2007-03-24T01:46:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![zellers](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/zellers/32/3135_2.png) [@zellers](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/zellers)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 1:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wtf/220242/1 "2007-03-24T01:46:29Z")

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what is a spider?

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look there.

There are Yahoo Slurps, MSN spiders, what do they mean? Why is there more than one?

Are they the bots that “crawl” the internet in the search engines, and index pages of a web-site?