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  2. Web crawler - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler

    mnoGoSearch is a crawler, indexer and a search engine written in C and licensed under the GPL (*NIX machines only) Open Search Server is a search engine and web crawler software release under the GPL. Scrapy, an open source webcrawler framework, written in python (licensed under BSD). Seeks, a free distributed search engine (licensed under AGPL).

  3. Search engine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine

    Some engines suggest queries when the user is typing in the search box. A search engine is a software system that provides hyperlinks to web pages and other relevant information on the Web in response to a user's query. The user inputs a query within a web browser or a mobile app, and the search results are often a list of hyperlinks ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Timeline of web search engines - Wikipedia

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    However, it is not a true Web crawler search engine. New search engine: Search.ch is launched. It is a search engine and web portal for Switzerland. [22] New web directory: LookSmart is released. It competes with Yahoo! as a web directory, and the competition makes both directories more inclusive. December: Web search engine supporting natural ...

  8. Googlebot - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlebot

    Googlebot FAQ. Googlebot is the web crawler software used by Google that collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google Search engine. This name is actually used to refer to two different types of web crawlers: a desktop crawler (to simulate desktop users) and a mobile crawler (to simulate a mobile user). [1]

  9. Web scraping - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping

    Web scraping is the process of automatically mining data or collecting information from the World Wide Web. It is a field with active developments sharing a common goal with the semantic web vision, an ambitious initiative that still requires breakthroughs in text processing, semantic understanding, artificial intelligence and human-computer interactions.