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AOL Spider?

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    Question AOL Spider?

    I'm not sure how the whole AOL spider thing works. I thought they got their search results from google or yahoo, but I am getting these listed as "guests" when I click "who's Online"

    cache-dtc-ab06.proxy.aol.com

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    Those are AOL users most likely.

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    I have thought so too, but there are nearly 20 on at one time, where normaly there are maybe 1 or 2.

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    AOL uses proxies, so a single AOL user can actually show up many, many times.

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