Glossary


Agent Name
The name of the crawler/spider/bot that is currently visiting a page/site. A spider is a robot, hence the alias "bot", sent out by search engines to index websites on the internet. When a spider indexes a particular website, this is known as 'being spidered'. So this is the spy you aren't noticing, and it can itch. It seems to think it is smaller than it is and that we can't see it. And we can see it (some are indeed too small), and we can tell it not to come back. We can also invite them "looking-us-overs". Preferably the non-poisonous ones. Search engine agents welcome, "vampirous" spam bots not, unless we are in for a game and show of our own claws and teeth (hacking skills).