What are Search Engine Crawlers?

What are Search Engine Crawlers?

A search engine crawler is also sometimes referred to as a web crawler. This is a program which is used to scour the entirety of the World Wide Web or the Internet. It also has rather apt bug-like names including ants, web spiders, web skutters, web robots, bots, and automatic indexers. When people refer to the process of indexing web pages, though, they call it “spidering” or “web crawling”. Search engines run on these spidering or web crawling methods to update their indexes.

Listings vs. Search Engine Ads: When to go Organic and When to Pay the Bill

Listings vs. Search Engine Ads: When to go Organic and When to Pay the Bill

Getting things for free is always a great deal. This is why a lot of people still choose to stay organic when it comes to their search engine optimization efforts. However, as with all free things, this also means that you’re never in full control of your website’s rankings. Google or any other web search engine can change the algorithms they use on their web robots to rank pages.

Two Sides of the Story: the Search Engine’s Role Today

Two Sides of the Story: the Search Engine’s Role Today

The search engine functions in the same way your library card functions to catalog books inside that labyrinthine store room of information. The only difference is that library cards are manually indexed by human minds. Search engines, on the other hand, are mostly administered by web robots or crawlers who sift through the word content of each and every webpage published on line.

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