What is web crawling?
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What is web crawling?
Process of indexing data on web pages by using a program or automated script is called web crawling.
Web crawling is the process of indexing data on web pages by using a program or automated script.
Web crawling is an activity of indexing and downloading data (content) from the internet, which will then be stored in the database of a search engine. Web crawling is run by a program or system which is usually called a web crawler, web spiders, spider bots, and web bots.
Web crawling is one kind of Google bot software that does indexing of website data through it.
Definition of web crawler: a computer program that automatically and systematically searches web pages for certain keywords Each search engine has its own proprietary computation (called an "algorithm") that ranks websites for each keyword or combination of keywords.