Thread: f*cking hell!!
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Old Aug 24, 2007 | 06:11 AM
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No it's not right and it's not people who are set as Hidden either.... the large amount of guests are what they call web-crawlers.... Google and Yahoo are the largest and I imagine because this site has Google AdSense that it's the reason for showing all those guests.

A web crawler (also known as a Web spider or Web robot) is a program or automated script which browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner.
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 Web site, 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).
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