Kevin's Watch

Posted: **Fri Jan 02, 2004 4:39 pm**

*sigh*

It took him all of 82 minutes.

Hush smarty pants!! No Shelob or Charlotte cracks!

Insect cracks are fine.

Posted: **Sat Jan 03, 2004 8:35 pm**

Erm, I'm pretty sure they were probably spiders.

Posted: **Sun Jan 04, 2004 8:22 am**

birdandbear wrote:
Vain wrote:Just some confirmation:

Final results obtained from whois.arin.net.
Results:
Cable & Wireless SC3-1 (NET-64-68-64-0-1)
64.68.64.0 - 64.68.95.255
Google Inc. EC12-1-GOOGLE (NET-64-68-80-0-1)
64.68.80.0 - 64.68.87.255
Huh??

Um......what's a spider?

I'm with you bnb...

What the heck?!?!

Posted: **Sun Jan 04, 2004 8:44 am**

Spider: arachnid - 8 legs, many species spin webs to trap prey; Two body regions.

Posted: **Mon Jan 05, 2004 7:13 am**

The Leper Fairy wrote:
birdandbear wrote:
Vain wrote:Just some confirmation:

Final results obtained from whois.arin.net.
Results:
Cable & Wireless SC3-1 (NET-64-68-64-0-1)
64.68.64.0 - 64.68.95.255
Google Inc. EC12-1-GOOGLE (NET-64-68-80-0-1)
64.68.80.0 - 64.68.87.255
Huh??

Um......what's a spider?
I'm with you bnb...

What the heck?!?!

OK. I ran a whois based on the IP addresses of the "guests" at that particular point in time and they point back to Google being the owner of the entire block - well lots of blocks.

A google spider is pretty much an automated surfer (much like yourself) that gets sent out to "spider" web sites - except that they do it in packs and they do it a whole lot faster than we could ever surf.

They then return the informaton to google who then uses it to update their servers and before you know it, we can be found on google.

Posted: **Mon Jan 05, 2004 8:24 am**

ahhhhh - so that's how google works. Thanks, Vain.

Posted: **Mon Jan 05, 2004 6:16 pm**

Ahhh....ok. So spiders are good, worms are bad......got it.

Thanks Vain!

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