Spiders and Crawlers

[Vamp1re]

Can anyone tell me what is the difference between Spiders and Crawlers?

[anupam27]

There is not any difference between these two.

[PoolrepairLV]

They look the same to me. But others say that Spiders open up a webpage on the browser, while Crawlers index your webpages.

[teacher]

Spiders is a name for the robots or crawlers that scan web and save the information in websites to a database. Hence, "Google spiders" is another name for "Google indexing bots".

[rajivdevkk]

Spiders and Crawlers both are the same. there are no deference between two.

[Stiffen87]

Spider and crawler are the same they are one unit only the name is different.

[jaysh4922]

Spiders,Crawlers, or Google Bots are just programs the search engines use to index the content found on the World Wide Web.

[brandappz]

spiders and crawlers both are the same and used to crawl your web page.

[luzec]

Spider - A program like browser that downloads web pages.

Crawler – A program that visits website and read their inner pages.

[SASA techno]

Spiders and Crawler is both same when ever you submit a webpage in Submission sites so that is fast crawling our website so this is helpful..

[hopy]

Crawlers crawl your website and spider download website pages to search engine data base

[mitsay]

The difference between spider & crawlers are :-
Spider :- Spider is an automated program that randomly visits the websites and reads entire content for making their entries in the Google search engine indices.
Crawler :- A software program that browse the websites in very orderly and it also executes link analysis and & HTML code validation functions.