What is the purpose of web crawling?

[pharmasecure]

What is the purpose of web crawling?

[dennis123]

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.

[Electrum]

Web crawling is also used to describe web scraping, pulling structured data from web pages, and web scraping has numerous applications. It also impacts search engine optimization (SEO) by providing input to search engines like Google whether your content has relevant information to the query or if it is a direct copy of another content online.

[storehifuture]

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.

[tbsind]

web crawler collect your website data and send it on Google through this way people will see your data on the internet.

[rallison]

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

[transindia]

Hello,
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.
A Web crawler is also known as a Web spider, automatic indexer or simply crawler.