What is it anyway?
Re: Yahoo Slurp Spider.
Some check / counter-check / spy kinda thing...
To keep an eye on the stuff that is posted at GS
I THINK ....
Re: Yahoo Slurp Spider.
nahhh... can't be.. ok gizzy unkel would you be kind enough to repl. James unkel just made a story while watching his chickens play.
Re: Yahoo Slurp Spider.
Its a search spider.
Re: Yahoo Slurp Spider.
James bhai was partly right. Well thats what they do.
Crawling pages on GS and all other sites to put those in their search index.
When you search for anything then its that index they look into to give you a search result.
more info here:
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp/
All search engines (google/msn/alta vista/ etc/etc) have similar spiders.