web crawler
Definition
Search engine for locating information on WWW, it indexes all the words in a document, adds them to a database, then follows all hyperlinks and indexes and adds that information also to the database. Also called web spider.
web crawler is in the Internet & World Wide Web subject.
web crawler appears in the definitions of the following terms: web spider and spider
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