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What is a “Spider”?

Discussion in 'Technical Discussions' started by samayaranjan, Nov 12, 2012.

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  1. samayaranjan

    samayaranjan Techie7 New Member

    A “spider” is a software program ?
     
    samayaranjan, Nov 12, 2012
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  2. leethomas

    leethomas Techie7 New Member

    A “spider” is a software program that travels the web examining websites in order to add them to a search engine
    database and rank them according to the specific ranking criteria for that search engine. Most search engines use
    spiders to quickly and efficiently canvas the web for information.
     
    leethomas, Nov 12, 2012
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  3. Digerati

    Digerati Super Moderator Techie7 Moderator

    The more common term for such program is web crawler.

    Note generally they are considered a good thing as they make searching and retrieving information on the Internet much much quicker.
     
    Digerati, Nov 14, 2012
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