Can Spiders Dance?

[DavidY]

..because I notice that in the last couple of weeks, someone with the name of a well-known internet search website has joined the list of members of this forum.

Is it:
(a) a real person with an original choice of name or
(b) the Google

If it's (b), does this mean that the Google Spiders can search the parts of the website accessible only to members (the Private Lounge etc)?

[StokeBloke]

Web Coast Swing... bleedin' hotshots! Not like Ladybirds who are happy to jitterbug

[happygoldfish]

spiders do it on their bots!

[Franck]

.If it's (b), does this mean that the Google Spiders can search the parts of the website accessible only to members (the Private Lounge etc)?

The Google ID allows the search engine to index members only areas of the forum, but they do not become publicly searchable. The indexing is only used to make the Google ads relevant to the content of the threads. Google have a very tight Privacy policy, so everything in the 'private areas' is no more exposed as a result.

[MartinHarper]

Google have a very tight Privacy policy

As luck would have it, they've just been in the news for their privacy policies.

Google privacy 'worst on the Web' - CNN.com

(FYI only - I don't care myself)

[Stuart M]

Of course they can. Where do you think the tarantella came from?

[EricD]

Tarantella

But that is people dancing after being bitten by a wolf spider.

For spiders that dance - as part of a display prior to mating -
you want the jumping spiders.
Movies of Jumping Spider Courtship