JargonFile/entries/spider.txt

7 lines
211 B
Plaintext
Raw Normal View History

2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
spider
2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
The Web-walking part of a search engine that collects pages for indexing in
the search engine's database. Also called a bot. The best-known is Scooter,
the web-walker for the Alta Vista search engine.