Yahoo! Slurp Spider and MSNBOT Spider?

[LegacyEeveeVGC]

OIk I was on the who is online on here and I saw these...
Yahoo! Slurp Spider, MSNBot Spider, and GOOGLE Spider?
What the heck are they?

 

[Jason]

Search engine bots...to keep the site strongly connected with their search engines i think

 

[LegacyEeveeVGC]

Ahh ok I might have guessed that...

 

[Magic_Umbreon]

So they have some sort of identity that stops them from being shown as guest. How does it know?

 

[moza]

Yahoo is selling haloween oriented slurpies?

 

[LegacyEeveeVGC]

Not for sure if thats a joke or what....