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  2. Web crawler - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler

    Web crawler. A Web crawler, sometimes called a spider or spiderbot and often shortened to crawler, is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web and that is typically operated by search engines for the purpose of Web indexing (web spidering). [1]

  3. Search engine (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Search engine (computing) In computing, a search engine is an information retrieval software system designed to help find information stored on one or more computer systems. Search engines discover, crawl, transform, and store information for retrieval and presentation in response to user queries. The search results are usually presented in a ...

  4. Search engine scraping - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_scraping

    Search engine scraping is the process of harvesting URLs, descriptions, or other information from search engines. This is a specific form of screen scraping or web scraping dedicated to search engines only. Most commonly larger search engine optimization (SEO) providers depend on regularly scraping keywords from search engines to monitor the ...

  5. WebCrawler - Wikipedia

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    WebCrawler is a search engine, and one of the oldest surviving search engines on the web today. For many years, it operated as a metasearch engine. WebCrawler was the first web search engine to provide full text search. [1]

  6. Web scraping - Wikipedia

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    In December 1993, the first crawler-based web search engine, JumpStation, was launched. As there were fewer websites available on the web, search engines at that time used to rely on human administrators to collect and format links.

  7. robots.txt - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt

    robots.txt is the filename used for implementing the Robots Exclusion Protocol, a standard used by websites to indicate to visiting web crawlers and other web robots which portions of the website they are allowed to visit. The standard, developed in 1994, relies on voluntary compliance. Malicious bots can use the file as a directory of which ...

  8. Apache Nutch - Wikipedia

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    Search engines built with Nutch Common Crawl – publicly available internet-wide crawls, started using Nutch in 2014. [3] Creative Commons Search – an implementation of Nutch, used in the period of 2004–2006. [11][12][13] DiscoverEd – Open educational resources search prototype developed by Creative Commons Krugle uses Nutch to crawl web pages for code, archives and technically ...

  9. YaCy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy

    YaCy is a complete search appliance with user interface, index, administration, and monitoring. YaCy harvests web pages with a web crawler. Documents are then parsed, and indexed and the search index is stored locally. If your peer is part of a peer network, then your local search index is also merged into the shared index for that network.