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What are the differences between web spiders and web crawlers?

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Web Spider and Web Crawling are used synonymously. The idea of spider or crawling is to go across the web by following links in the page, gathering the links, fetching the content and storing the content in your database. read more

The idea of spider or crawling is to go across the web by following links in the page, gathering the links, fetching the content and storing the content in your database. There is no as such difference between the two as the terminology suggests spider builds a web(not the www) and crawl is about fetching information. read more

It will guided by search engine algorithms It can combine the tasks of crawler & spider helpful of the indexing the web pages and through the search engines. opensource All these are same only( its a program developed by search engine). read more

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