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What is a “Spider”?

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What is a “Spider”?

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A “spider” is an electronic robot that travels the web examining websites in order to add them to a search engine database and rank them according to the specific ranking criteria for that search engine. Most search engines use spiders to quickly and efficiently canvass the web for information.

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A spider is a program that automatically finds Web pages. They are used to supply web pages to search engines. It works its way across the web using links to go from web page to web page.

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