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flyingpig
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WHat the heck? There are 3000 people viewing us and not even a tenth of those people are members. We have 100 members active. What are those 3000 people waiting for!??
These all show up as "guests" which are supposed to be real people. Unless the reporting has changed, the spiders show up as such and will say "yahoo" "google" etc...D H said:A lot of them are spiders. Ever since Google changed the way search engines rank web sites the web has been crawling with little critters. Some of these spiders emanate from commercial engines, some are written by students just to learn how to create a web crawler, some are commercial entities crawling the web for their own nefarious purposes. Some people who have strong interest in some topic will write their own crawlers rather than relying on search engines.
flyingpig said:What are the spiders u guys referring to? I don't want to be in the dark
micromass said:
flyingpig said:What's the purpose of crawling?
any 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 sending spam).
To find web pages. Crawling took on much greater importance with PageRank (google that term), where the "Page" in PageRank stands for Larry Page, not web page. Page's PhD thesis was about a new kind of search engine that used a technique similar to how librarians and academicians decide which are the most important journal papers. It's a fairly simple concept: Count the number of times a paper is referenced by some other paper.flyingpig said:What's the purpose of crawling?
This phrase refers to the total number of people who attended the event or gathering. It indicates that there were at least 3,000 individuals who were not members of the organization hosting the event, and 100 individuals who were members.
Having a large number of guests and members at an event can indicate a high level of interest and support for the organization and its activities. It may also suggest that the organization has a strong and active community.
The numbers of guests and members are typically calculated by counting the number of people who attended the event or are registered as members of the organization. These numbers may also be estimated based on ticket sales or membership records.
There may be a limit on the number of guests or members at an event, depending on the size of the venue or the capacity of the organization. This is often done to ensure the safety and comfort of all attendees.
The process for becoming a member of an organization may vary, but it typically involves filling out an application, paying membership fees, and meeting any other requirements set by the organization. You may need to contact the organization directly for more information on becoming a member.