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A Web crawler, sometimes called a spider or spiderbot and often shortened to crawler, is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web and that is typically operated by search engines for the purpose of Web indexing ( web spidering ). [1]

WebCrawler is a search engine, and one of the oldest surviving search engines on the web today. For many years, it operated as a metasearch engine . WebCrawler was the first web search engine to provide full text search.

A web crawler, spider, or search engine bot downloads and indexes content from all over the Internet. The goal of such a bot is to learn what (almost) every webpage on the web is about, so that the information can be retrieved when it's needed. They're called "web crawlers" because crawling is the technical term for automatically accessing a ...

The answer is web crawlers, also known as spiders. These are automated programs (often called "robots" or "bots") that "crawl" or browse across the web so that they can be added to search engines. These robots index websites to create a list of pages that eventually appear in your search results. Crawlers also create and store copies of these ...