Who is Yahoo! Slurp Spider & Google Spider?

[FN-GM]

Hiya

I have just been having a nosey at the who’s online page I can see the following usernames

Yahoo! Slurp Spider
Google Spider

Who & What are they?? The username Yahoo! Slurp Spider is on many forum topics at one time.

[Andrew_C]

Search engine spiders mapping the web.

[rush_tech]

Try googling google spider

[localzuk]

Try googling google spider

Nooo! You'll tear a hole in the universe!!!

[Geoff]

yay, that'll mean all the google results for edugeek will point to the right place now.

[ZeroHour]

I cant believe you did not guess that one.

The term "search spider" not mean anything?
Maybe terminology like that is old boy speak

BTW all the results for the forums on google for the old site should just work anyway.

[Geoff]

Yes, I am aware of the redirection you are doing (btw, you need to deny search spiders from using your redirection otherwise they'll never update their indexes).

[ZeroHour]

They get a permanently moved header tag (301) to get them to update their listings

[FN-GM]

I have never heard of search spider