jcguy 0 Report post Posted September 27, 2004 What are spiders and leaches? Are spiders or leaches bad? If so what do they do????? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Spiders are actually robots that crawl the web constantly by following links on a webpage to other pages. Because the web is made up of billions of web pages linked together, it is possible for the spiders to crawl the entire content of the web. That's how Google, with its spiders, can build a database for you to search. As for leaches, I'm not very sure, but it sounds very scary Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eric Straven 0 Report post Posted September 27, 2004 Well, in this case, its spelt 'leeches'...Leeches are also automated robots or programs that search websites for files and mass-download them, eating up bandwidth. Leeches are also programs used by people on P2P networks to download files from a specific network without letting others access file from the leech.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted January 14, 2008 get around this Meta Tags If you want to use google to find pages like this, type this in the search box "robots.Txt" disallow:" filetype:txt -ladyzfirst Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
