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Giant Spiders And Other Hoaxes Are Hard To Kill On The Web.(INTERNET & TECHNOLOGY)(COMPUTERS MADE PLAIN)
Byline: SHEILA RILEY
Imagine giant spiders that squeal loudly and scamper across the desert at 25 miles per hour.
They attach themselves to camels, numb the camels' flesh with a natural anesthetic and then devour their stomachs from the outside.
Sound horrible to you? Well, you'll be happy to know that these spiders don't exist -- other than in the cyberspace rumor mill. Stories of the spiders surfaced just after the Iraq war began and tapped into a jittery nation's fears about the conflict.
It's one of many hoaxes perpetuated by the Internet. And like other online myths, it refuses to die.
"The camel spiders, as much as I'm embarrassed to say it, is one of the most popular searches," said Dean Tsouvalas, a writer for the search engine Lycos. "It is consistently searched every week, every day."
Tsouvalas keeps track of the company's most-requested searches. The camel spider, although debunked on numerous "urban legend" sites, remains among them.
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