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crawler
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Also known as a "Web crawler," "spider," "ant," "robot" (bot) and "intelligent agent," a crawler is a program that searches for information on the Web. Crawlers are widely used by Web search engines to index all the pages on a site by following the links from page to page. The search engine then summarizes the content and adds the links to their indexes. They are also used to locate Web pages that sell a particular product or to find blogs that have opinions about a product. See spidering program.

crawler - robot


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