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    Web crawler, sometimes called a spider or spiderbot and often shortened to crawler, is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web...
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  • 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...
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  • A focused crawler is a web crawler that collects Web pages that satisfy some specific property, by carefully prioritizing the crawl frontier and managing...
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  • small crawler configuration, in which there is a central DNS resolver and central queues per Web site, and distributed downloaders. A large crawler configuration...
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    images. Due to this, the web crawler cannot archive "orphan pages" that are not linked to by other pages. The Wayback Machine's crawler only follows a predetermined...
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  • The World Wide Web Wanderer, also simply called The Wanderer, was a Perl-based web crawler that was first deployed in June 1993 to measure the size of...
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  • implemented using a bot or web crawler. It is a form of copying in which specific data is gathered and copied from the web, typically into a central local...
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    headings found in the web pages the crawler encountered. One of the first "all text" crawler-based search engines was WebCrawler, which came out in 1994...
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  • hidden-Web crawler that used important terms provided by users or collected from the query interfaces to query a Web form and crawl the Deep Web content...
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  • Dungeon Crawler Carl is a science fiction and fantasy LitRPG book series written by American author Matt Dinniman. It was initially self published by...
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  • October 2000 Web.com, Inc. (NASDAQ symbol WWWW) World Wide Web Wanderer, a web crawler used to measure the size of the Web in 1993 World-Wide Web Worm, an...
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  • MetaCrawler is a search engine. It is a registered trademark of InfoSpace and was created by Erik Selberg. It was originally a metasearch engine, as its...
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    scripts in addition to the text content. A user agent, commonly a web browser or web crawler, initiates communication by making a request for a specific resource...
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  • Look up crawler in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Crawler may refer to: Web crawler, a computer program that gathers and categorizes information on...
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  • Crawljax is a free and open source web crawler for automatically crawling and analyzing dynamic Ajax-based Web applications. One major point of difference...
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    This page provides a full timeline of web search engines, starting from the WHOis in 1982, the Archie search engine in 1990, and subsequent developments...
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  • Spider trap (redirect from Crawler trap)
    A spider trap (or crawler trap) is a set of web pages that may intentionally or unintentionally be used to cause a web crawler or search bot to make an...
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  • Technology Group Ltd Pricesearcher uses PriceBot, its custom web crawler, to search the web for prices, and it allows direct product feeds from retailers...
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  • StormCrawler is an open-source collection of resources for building low-latency, scalable web crawlers on Apache Storm. It is provided under Apache License...
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    Heritrix (category Web archiving)
    Heritrix is a web crawler designed for web archiving. It was written by the Internet Archive. It is available under a free software license and written...
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  • contained in the crawler frontier are known as seeds. The web crawler will constantly ask the frontier what pages to visit. As the crawler visits each of...
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    Googlebot (category Web crawlers)
    Googlebot is the web crawler software used by Google that collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google Search engine. This...
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    Apache Nutch (category Free web crawlers)
    Apache Nutch is a highly extensible and scalable open source web crawler software project. Nutch is coded entirely in the Java programming language, but...
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  • behind a web form can lie in the Deep Web if crawlers cannot follow a link to the results page. Crawler traps (e.g., calendars) may cause a crawler to download...
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    Microsoft Bing (redirect from Bing Web)
    instead. Microsoft decided to make a large investment in web search by building its own web crawler for MSN Search, the index of which was updated weekly...
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    variant HTTPS. A user agent, commonly a web browser or web crawler, initiates communication by making a request for a web page or other resource using HTTP...
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  • SortSite (category Web accessibility)
    SortSite is a web crawler that scans entire websites for quality issues including accessibility, browser compatibility, broken links, legal compliance...
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  • entries gathered automatically by web crawler, most web directories are built manually by human editors. Many web directories allow site owners to submit...
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    Robots.txt (category Web scraping)
    behaved web crawler that inadvertently caused a denial-of-service attack on Koster's server. The standard, initially RobotsNotWanted.txt, allowed web developers...
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    literature, including court opinions and patents. Google Scholar uses a web crawler, or web robot, to identify files for inclusion in the search results. For...
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