A program that indexes web pages.
Programs that roam the World Wide Web collecting information to build indices.
Search tools send out small programs that we once called robots but now refer to as spiders, crawlers or 'indexers' - to review and catalogue Web sites and copy text they finds into a database.
Automated programs that search or "crawl" through the Internet recording information on web sites.
Harmless scripts that crawl through the Web reading HTML off webpages in order to classify the page on behalf of search engines.
Small programs sent out by search engines to follow links on websites and harvest information found on each page. This process is known as 'spidering' or 'crawling'.
Computer programs, also called 'robots' or 'crawlers', that are used by search engines to catalogue the World Wide Web into huge databases. They obtain new pages, update known pages, and delete obsolete ones. Due to the size of the internet and the time taken to 'sweep' it results are often out of date.
Search engines and agents that are traversing and indexing the Internet request a file from your web server called robots.txt, this is used as a metric to determine visiting spiders, crawlers, and indexers.
Spiders are the bits of software used by search engines to read your website during indexing.
Also referred to as crawlers. A spider is the main program used by search engines to retrieve Web pages to include in their database. A spider is a type of robot that roams the Internet, visiting Web sites and databases, and keeps the search engine databases of Web pages up to date. They obtain new Web pages, update known Web pages, and delete obsolete ones. Their findings are then integrated into the home database. Most large search engines operate several robots all the time. Google, FAST Search, Inktomi, Teoma and AltaVista are spider based search engines.
to search for Web pages, and then list those pages according to the content they contain. When you use a search engine to find specific information, the search engine provides a detailed list of Web pages that best match your inquiry. Popular search engines include Excite, Snap, Yahoo, and Infoseek.
The main program used by search engines to retrieve web pages to include in their database. See also: Robot.
Computer robots typically used by search engines to automatically crawl through your website and index pages.
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Computer programs used by search engines to roam the World Wide Web. They are used to update the collection of Web pages stored in search engines.
Computer robot programs, referred to sometimes as "crawlers" or "knowledge-bots" or "knowbots" that are used by search engines to roam the World Wide Web via the Internet, visit sites and databases, and keep the search engine database of web pages up to date. They obtain new pages, update known pages, and delete obsolete ones. Their findings are then integrated into the "home" database. Most large search engines operate several robots all the time. Even so, the Web is so enormous that it can take six months for spiders to cover it, resulting in a certain degree of "out-of-datedness" (link rot) in all the search engines.
Also known as robots or crawlers, these are automated programs that visit your website and collect information about it. Most search engines use these to analyze and reference your site. Other more shady characters and the odd geek here and there use them too.
An automated program which searches the internet.
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An automated program that visits Web sites and reads their pages in order to create entries for a search engine index. The major search engines on the Web all have such a program, which is also known as a "crawler" or a "bot." Spiders are typically programmed to visit sites that have been submitted by their owners as new or updated.
A program that follows your website pages, classifying text content to become indexed into search engine databases.
A tool also known as a Robot that is employed by Search engine s to regularly index Web page s of registered Web site
Programs used by search engines to "crawl" through your website looking for content used to rank your website in their engine. Spiders are launched automatically and will help getting your site listed properly in the search engines. Also small, eight-legged, multi-eyed creatures descending from the order Araneae.
Refer to programs which visit sites to collect, record or index the pages or content. Generally, spiders are considered as robots which move from link-to-link within the site. This movement is assumed to be comparable to a spider tracing a web.
An automated program (sometimes called a webcrawler) which crawls over the World Wide Web, gathering web pages for search engines. Large search engines employ many spiders.
Software used by search engines to locate new Web pages for their document databases.
Also known as an "ant," "robot" ("bot") and "intelligent agent," a crawler is a program that searches for information on the World Wide Web. It is used to locate new documents and new sites by following hypertext links from server to server and indexing information based on search criteria.
Software robots that automatically scour the Internet, reporting Web page contents back to a search engine's index or database. Also called "crawlers."
The nick-name given to the automatic robots that each search engine has to do their search queries for them.