Robots are programs that relatively autonomously fulfil certain tasks in databases, servers or on the internet. Search engines, for instance, use robots to detect and index the contents of web pages for queries.
Robots (or spiders) are automated information retrieval programs collecting data for search engines. There is a standard way of communicating with these robots - intended to control their movements so that the site designer can prevent access to certain areas, for example, directories without html content. As an alternative to the usual "robots.txt" file, you can use meta tags to control the robots. To prevent further indexing of your pages, use the following tag in the page: (The tag is not well supported.)meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" The robots.txt file consists of one or more records separated by one or more blank lines. Each record contains lines of the form "field":"optionalspace""value". The field name is case insensitive. Comments can be added using #. Example: # robots.txt for http://www.codehelp.co.uk Robot: * #any and all are to follow these rules. Disallow: /notthisfolder/ #ignore this folder. Disallow: /northisone/ #ignore this folder too. The robots.txt file needs to be in the main index directory of your site. For more information on robots, email me or search for robots.txt in a search engine.
This is another name for a search engine crawler or spider.
Are automated or dynamic programs. They may have specific or limited targets or functions. Sometimes, they may scour the web looking for new material, verifying links and other functionalities.
programs, which written by search-engines, find web-pages, and record their information in the search-engine database
automated programs used in several online function ...
Programmes which search engines send out to read the meta tags and/or body text of a submitted site
A program that runs automatically; without human intervention. Typically, a robot is endowed with some artificial intelligence so that it can react to different situations it may encounter. Two common types of robots are agents and search spiders.
Programme which meta search engines send out to read the metas and/or body html of a submitted site
Software programs designed to automatically go out and explore the Internet for a variety of purposes. Robots that record and index all of the contents of the network to create searchable databases are sometimes called Spiders or Worms. AltaVista, WebCrawler, and Lycos are sites that use robots.
agents which crawl the Web searching for new or updated Web pages. These agents record the entire text of every page within a Web site they visit. The agent then visits all the external links noted at the site.
Any browser program which follows hypertext links and accesses web pages but is not directly under human control. Examples are the search engine spiders and "harvesting" programs which extract e-mail addresses and other data from web.
An Agent or Spider program that runs automatically without help from a person.
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A reprogrammable, multi-functional manipulator used to position parts, tools, or welding guns through a variety of programmed motions.
Special computer programs designed to roam the Internet to gather information about sites, especially index information.
search engine robots follow links throughout the Internet to crawl through all the websites on the world wide web.
Also know as a "crawler" or "spider", a robot is an automated software program that runs at many search engines, reads sites' content, analyzes it, and inserts them into the index (or collects information for later insertion into the index).
Automated, autonomous programs on the internet. See Spiders.
Search Engine automatic indexing agents that visit your site once you have submitted your site url. Also see "crawlers".
Robots are the bits of software used by search engines to read your website during indexing.
A robot is a browser program that follows hypertext links, read the "meta tags" and/or body html of a submitted site, and accesses Web pages but is not directly under human control. Example: search engine spiders, the harvesting software programs that extract e-mail addresses or other data from Web pages. See Meta Tags
On the World Wide Web, a program that autonomously searches through trees of hypertext documents, retrieving files for indexing (or other purposes). Also called a worm.