What is the difference between indexed and crawling?

[Bestseoservices]

Can you Please explain difference between indexed and crawling?

[guptaabhijit318]

Indexing is the process of creating indexes for record collections. Having indexes allows researchers to more quickly find records for specific individuals; without them, researchers might have to look through hundreds or thousands of records to locate an individual record.

Crawling process is a final process of through which Google gives final results for your website or blog. This is a process execute by search engine spiders when searching for relevant websites on the internet.

[petersonangela]

We use software known as “web crawlers” to discover publicly available webpages. The most well-known crawler is called “Googlebot.” Crawlers look at webpages and follow links on those pages, much like you would if you were browsing content on the web. They go from link to link and bring data about those webpages back to Google’s servers.

The web is like an ever-growing public library with billions of books and no central filing system. Google essentially gathers the pages during the crawl process and then creates an index, so we know exactly how to look things up. Much like the index in the back of a book, the Google index includes information about words and their locations. When you search, at the most basic level, our algorithms look up your search terms in the index to find the appropriate pages.

More details http://www.google.co.in/insidesearch/howsearchworks/crawling-indexing.html

[amandagentle]

Crawl means Google robot visit website or webpages to select which information is suitable to visitors and index process is done after that in Google database.

[edwina]

Spider is a software .It is the process of fetching all the web pages linked to a web site.This is also called crawling .

The google is used to provide a service to the computer software and hardware resources called google index.
It is used to checks the status of the google webmaster tool.

[robingage]

I think when search engine cache any information then that is called crawling and when save any data in Google data base then that called indexing.

[Natalie Dormer]

Crawling
Crawling is the process by which Google bot discovers new and updated pages to be added to the Google index. Google's crawl process begins with a list of web page URLs, generated from previous crawl processes, and augmented with Sitemap data provided by webmasters.
Indexing
Google bot processes each of the pages it crawls in order to compile a massive index of all the words it sees and their location on each page.