Explain Spiders, Robots, and Crawlers

[handmaderug]

Explain Spiders, Robots, and Crawlers

[neelseowork]

Hey, why don't you use google to get the definition of these terms?
you will get a detailed explanation there.

[Neo_5678]

Crawler: Also known as Robot, Bot or Spider. These are programs used by search engines to explore the Internet and automatically download web content available on web sites. They capture the text of the pages and the links found and thus enable search engine users to find new pages.

[WoodsPainting]

Hi Friends,

Spiders, robot and crawler, they are all the same and referred by different names. It is a software program that follows or “Crawls” various links throughout the internet, and then grabs the content from the sites and adds to the search engine indexes

[smriti1]

Thanks for sharing useful information for us.

[jayam]

Crawler: Also known as Robot, Bot or Spider. These are programs used by search engines to explore the Internet and automatically download web content available on web sites. They capture the text of the pages and the links found, and thus enable search engine users to find new pages.

[RH-Calvin]

They are all the same and are automated programs that provide information to search engines.

[dombowkett]

These each search engine terms help in website indexing.