What is a webcrawler anyway?
2006-06-17 02:40:21 · 5 answers · asked by rojo_salas 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Advertising & Marketing
it is a software program the searches the web's websites, indexing and rating that site for listing it in search engine searches!
2006-06-17 02:45:05 · answer #1 · answered by Pobept 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A webcrawler is a man who lives on a boat and uses a special flute or 'scrampoopler' in order to attract seabirds to his craft . At dawn every day he crawls up a special web ( the scornpope) and dangles from the top playing tempting melodies on his scrampoopler . Once the birds have settled on his scornpope he suddenly starts to shake it violently and then starts screaming madly - making them flea back to their nests . Nobody knows why the webcrawler does this but it has been suggested he does it 'for a laugh' or 'thaark'
2006-06-17 10:26:13 · answer #2 · answered by clintwestwood 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
" A program that automatically fetches Web pages. Spiders are used to feed pages to search engines. It's called a spider because it crawls over the Web. Another term for these programs is webcrawler.
Because most Web pages contain links to other pages, a spider can start almost anywhere. As soon as it sees a link to another page, it goes off and fetches it. Large search engines, like Alta Vista, have many spiders working in parallel. "
2006-06-17 10:16:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it crawls in to the web pages without the knowledge of the webmaster and brings to fore very valuable information for the surfers through the search engines.
2006-06-17 10:24:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spiderman.
2006-06-17 09:42:25 · answer #5 · answered by windyy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋