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**bluesrogie** · 11-10-2006, 10:36 PM

boy am i new at this !!!! cant find my way around at all but maybee thats bcause im a caveman with these newfangled gagets i guess a thread is a question ??? trying to ask tom when i go to tsp talk website and click for update on funds which gives me the market thats related to each fund for the i shares it gives 2 amex efa and amx agg what is the differance between them and do they both effect ishares and if so are they averaged together or what whew i did all that with 1 finger thanx caveman

**tsptalk** · 11-10-2006, 11:26 PM

Welcome bluerogie!

EFA is used for the I fund.
AGG is the F fund.

See the charts at the bottom of this page...

Tom

**bluesrogie** · 11-11-2006, 01:41 AM

then how come they both say ishares at the top

**Show-me** · 11-11-2006, 01:43 AM

Ishare is a company name brand.

http://www.ishares.com/splash.jhtml?...equestid=28612

**bluesrogie** · 11-11-2006, 01:54 AM

thnx 4 info is it important 2 put in profile and allocations?

**Show-me** · 11-11-2006, 02:02 AM

Profile just tells other people about you. You may not want that information out for everyone to veiw. It is a personal choice as is posting your allocation. You may want to jump right in or sit back a watch how everyone else is doing it. No matter what you do good luck!

**swsop** · 05-02-2007, 01:55 AM

Hay Tom;

I see the number of guest on line keep getting larger every day; they now out number the members on line at any given time. Now what does that tell you? They like what they see and read for free.

Swsop

**tsptalk** · 05-02-2007, 02:30 AM

Actually.... a lot of those guests are search engine spiders snooping around.

**GGal** · 05-02-2007, 09:40 AM

Originally Posted by tsptalk

Actually.... a lot of those guests are search engine spiders snooping around.

Tom,

What's a search engine spider, and what are they snooping for?

Thanks
GA

**Oldcoin** · 05-02-2007, 02:03 PM

Originally Posted by Paladin

I don't like the idea of spiders crawling around on this site!

I’m with you Paladin, I couldn’t make it through the first 20 minutes of Arachnophobia

**ChemEng** · 05-02-2007, 02:47 PM

Originally Posted by GeorgiaGal

Tom,

What's a search engine spider, and what are they snooping for?

Thanks
GA

A search engine spider is a tool that search engines like Google and Yahoo use to harvest keyword data for different websites. Based on the results of the analysis of that data, the associated website will either be higher or lower on searches for those keywords based on their magical search algorithms. Im pretty sure that they are also used to make the recommendations for what each pages adsense ad will be as well.

Hope that helps...

**tsptalk** · 05-02-2007, 04:37 PM

If you ever wondered how you can type in something like "TSP" into Google and get 16 million hits back in .06 seconds, it's the spiders that are constantly gathering the info. They are crawling here and every site on the web.