Have You Heard of the Yahoo Slurp Spider?

[rennea]

What the heck is a Yahoo Slurp Spider!! I have seen this today on here and I don't know what the heck it is!!

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

I dunno...reminds me of my college girlfriend.

 

[janetupnorth]

Yahoo! Slurp is Yahoo!'s web-indexing robot. The Yahoo! Slurp crawler collects documents from the Web to build a searchable index for search services using the Yahoo! search engine. These documents are discovered and crawled because other web pages contain links directing to these documents.
As part of the crawling effort, the Yahoo! Slurp crawler will take robots.txt standards into account to ensure we do not crawl and index content from those pages whose content you do not want included in Yahoo! Search Technology. If a page is disallowed to be crawled by robots.txt standards, Yahoo! will not read or use the contents of that page. The URL of a protected page may be included in Yahoo! Search Technology as a "thin" document with no text content. Links and reference text from other public web pages provide identifiable information about a URL and may be indexed as part of web search coverage.

(From Yahoo)

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

I think I liked my answer better.

 

[dannyzmom]

Yahoo! Slurp is Yahoo!'s web-indexing robot. The Yahoo! Slurp crawler collects documents from the Web to build a searchable index for search services using the Yahoo! search engine. These documents are discovered and crawled because other web pages contain links directing to these documents.
As part of the crawling effort, the Yahoo! Slurp crawler will take robots.txt standards into account to ensure we do not crawl and index content from those pages whose content you do not want included in Yahoo! Search Technology. If a page is disallowed to be crawled by robots.txt standards, Yahoo! will not read or use the contents of that page. The URL of a protected page may be included in Yahoo! Search Technology as a "thin" document with no text content. Links and reference text from other public web pages provide identifiable information about a URL and may be indexed as part of web search coverage.

(From Yahoo)

Ok - and can you translate that to English??? :

 

[rennea]

I think I liked my answer better.

Me too...but thank you Janet for the info

 

[straitfan]

HUH? And where is this spider at?

 

[mbh06]

Wow, my poor sleep deprived brain couldn't get past the first line... but I guess that what happens when you get up every three hours! Much easier to proccess kitchen guys answer, haha!

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

Ok - and can you translate that to English??? :

One more piece of software snooping around your stuff.

 

[luvs2sellit]

Ok, once again. What is a yahoo slurp spider??? Sorry Janet but you are way too smart and I am way to dumb. rofwmp. Your answer totally confused me.

 

[chefann]

It's a piece of software that crawls the web getting info about web pages for search engines. Nothing you need to worry about.

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

Stuff like this couldn't have anything to do with why the amount of spam I get daily has gone up about 200% in the last five weeks or so.