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How bad is your googling habit and what does it mean?

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arachnophilia
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Message 31 of 120 (431757)
11-01-2007 9:37 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Fosdick
11-01-2007 12:50 PM

Could you live without Google (or any of its peers)?
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the "arachno" part of my screen name is not derived from the biological arachnids, but the digital sort: web-crawlers. i think that should make my position obvious.
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arachnophilia
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11-02-2007 12:55 AM 		Reply to: Message 33 by Archer Opteryx
11-02-2007 12:35 AM

the "arachno" part of my screen name is not derived from the biological arachnids, but the digital sort: web-crawlers.
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No foolin'! I learn something every day.
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Didn't even have to open my Google window this time.
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funny story though. if you do google "web robots" or similar searches you can come up with a list of such robots. "robots" or "spiders" are programs that relate to web-connectivity, traversing link architecture to determine various things like link-depth... things like google are essentially front-ends for these spiders. but does your average person on the internet know that? no, of course not.
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to them "robot" means "chatbot" and "chatbot" means "aol instant messenger screen name." and with an "arachnophilia" robot listed near the top of that list, i find myself somewhat regularly subjected to a turing test.
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for a while, i had a much more formal (read: googled) explanation of the above as my aim profile, which began with the words "I AM NOT A ROBOT." yet i still managed to get a few of these conversations a day. i'm glad they've stopped.
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11-02-2007 1:05 AM 		Reply to: Message 36 by crashfrog
11-02-2007 1:02 AM

Re: You are so a robot
I AM NOT A ROBOT.
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That's just what I'd expect a robot to say, robot.
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*blinks*
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I cannot believe you just said that!
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11-02-2007 2:18 AM 		Reply to: Message 38 by crashfrog
11-02-2007 1:30 AM

Re: You are so a robot
bite my shiny metal ass.
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