How does a web crawler work?

[juliaalan]

How does a web crawler work?


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[chris26]

A web crawler crawls websites and follows any link on the websites to other websites that are do follow links. They find new websites or new content or updates and index it in search results.

[AdrianG001]

A Web crawler is an Internet bot which helps in Web indexing. They crawl one page at a time through a website until all pages have been indexed. Web crawlers help in collecting information about a website and the links related to them, and also help in validating the HTML code and hyperlinks.

[tbsind]

A web crawler is also known as a spider, and it is Google software that collects the data from a website and sends it to Google.