Turbostar
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What the hell is Yahoo! Slurp Spider. I'm on here sat night/sun morn, & 60 are viewing the 'Traction & Rolling Stock' thread. Is it some kinda virus or something???
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It puts the pages in Search Engines thats pretty much it.
Donny Dave
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The Slurp Spider from Yahoo is simply a bot programmed by them to index every page on the web for the search engine. Google, MSN, etc do the same. All it is for, is when someone types in "Rail UK" (or something topical), it lists the relevent pages first.
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