What is the purpose of web crawling?

[donamiller90]

What is the purpose of web crawling?

[tbsind]

The purpose of web crawling is to collect the website data that we update on our website. A web crawler is a kind of Google bot software that will collect the data and send it to Google. This way, our data will be visible on the internet.

[Cyril30]

A web crawler, or spider, is a type of bot that is typically operated by search engines like Google and Bing. Their purpose is to index the content of websites all across the Internet so that those websites can appear in search engine results.