What is....

[wb]

A yahoo slurp spider?

Everytime I see who is online, there are loads of them. I presume it is when someone types in a keyword into yahoo, and it matches with a thread, but how come there are no google ones etc?

How does it work?

[samantha1303]

Its a robot -

[Fadetoblack]

A very cunning (lingus) robot...

[vegyjones]

A robot with a cunning stunt!

[Win2Win]

It's the bot that keeps places like Yahoo, Google, etc, updated.