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What is the function of a search engine spider?

Discussion in 'Web Development' started by ramesh babu, Mar 10, 2015.

  1. ramesh babu

    ramesh babu New Member

    Hi..everyone,

    Can anyone please tel me What is the function of a search engine spider?

    Thanks in Advance
     
    ramesh babu, Mar 10, 2015
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  2. daviddakarai

    daviddakarai Member

    Search engine spider is a program that reads web pages and the purpose of this program is Web indexing.
     
    daviddakarai, Mar 15, 2015
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  3. Prachi Mehra

    Prachi Mehra New Member

    Search engine spider is crawl the web pages of your website also called web crawler
     
    Prachi Mehra, Mar 19, 2015
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  4. KelvinSmith

    KelvinSmith New Member

    Web crawlers (also called search engine spiders or robots) use a process that called web crawling. The web crawlers gathers the information of the website and its links such as Website URL, page title, heading tags, web page content, links on the page.
     
    KelvinSmith, Mar 27, 2015
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