Crawler-based search engines have three major elements. The first is the spider, also called the crawler, which visits a web page, reads it, and then follows links to other pages within the site.
Source: wiktionary
Crawler
Synonyms for "crawler" (20 found)
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Noun(4 words)
Strong matches (6)
Related words (10)
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15 entriesTranslations
35 translations across 16 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- زَحَّافَة noun (tractor crawler)
Bulgarian
2 entries- верижен трактор noun (tractor crawler)
- кроулър noun (software bot)
Catalan
1 entries- crolista noun (crawl swimmer)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 爬蟲 /爬虫 noun (software bot)
Czech
2 entries- kraulař noun (crawl swimmer)
- kraulařka noun (crawl swimmer)
Finnish
4 entries- hakurobotti noun (software bot)
- konttaaja noun (child able to creep)
- kroolaaja noun (crawl swimmer)
- kroolari noun (crawl swimmer)
French
2 entries- crawleur noun (crawl swimmer)
- crawleuse noun (crawl swimmer)
German
1 entries- Raupe noun (tractor crawler)
Icelandic
4 entries- könguló noun (software bot)
- skriðill noun (software bot)
- vefkönguló noun (software bot)
- vefskriðill noun (software bot)
Kabuverdianu
1 entries- katrapila noun (tractor crawler)
Malay
2 entries- perangkak noun (software bot)
- traktor rangkak noun (tractor crawler)
Polish
1 entries- pełzak noun (child able to creep)
Russian
2 entries- гу́сеничный тра́ктор noun (tractor crawler)
- ползу́н noun (child able to creep)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- pobirač noun (software bot)
- program pauk noun (software bot)
Slovak
2 entries- krauliar noun (crawl swimmer)
- krauliarka noun (crawl swimmer)
Spanish
4 entries- adulador noun (abused person)
- bebe noun (child able to creep)
- rastreador web noun (software bot)
- trator oruga noun (tractor crawler)
Sample sentences
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These serve as an algorithmic way to judge the “mobileness” of a site, and similar algorithms are likely to be used by the search crawlers.
Source: wiktionary
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