Basic Tarantula Google Search


Out of curiosity, I wanted to see what would pop up when searching only the word "tarantula" to see what exactly would pop up on a basic, popular search. At first, I saw the "Top Stories" which showed very current stories of what happened the same day! There are so many illegal transported spider species, it gets really sad especially to someone who adores the little critters. There are YouTube videos that pop up like popular tarantula You Tubers like Exotics Lair, Dark-Den, Deadly Tarantula Girl and old informational videos. Exotics Lair is the main recommendation when searching because he posts often with a million views almost every video. I do watch these You Tubers and I recommend watching them especially Dark Den because he was the one who got me into tarantulas in the first place. I would also say to use DuckDuckGO instead of Google but hey you didn't hear that from me (I want Google to use me in their page(s)). 

Overall, the first things that pops up is the Wikipedia page. what people usually ask, YouTube videos and informational websites from different sources like zoos, exterminators, and wild life preservation sites. I don't recommend Wikipedia like every other teacher and that there can be a few mistakes here and there like the fact that 1,000 tarantula species have been founded. It's pretty iffy about the number of species that we know because it varies hugely by source. Some say it's 800, 900 or 1,000 but most say 800-900 but according to another more specific Wikipedia page, it says there are around 1,236 species which was accepted by the World Spider Catalog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Theraphosidae_species 



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