A brief history of search crawlers- The first crawler was the World Wide Web Wander and it appeared in 1993. It was developed by MIT and it’s initial purpose was to measure the growth of the web.

Wikia Inc.’s project to develop an open-source search engine got another boost with the acquisition of the Grub distributed Web crawler, the company announced Friday. Wikia acquired Grub from ...

Web crawlers are mainly used to create a copy of all the visited pages for later processing by a search engine, that will index the downloaded pages to provide fast searches.

How Web Crawling Works. A web crawler works by discovering URLs and downloading the page content. During this process, they may pass the content over to the search engine index and will extract ...

A good web crawler tool helps you understand how efficient your website is from a search engine’s point of view. The crawler basically takes search engine ranking factors and checks your site against ...

Today at SMX East, Google’s Webmaster Trends Analyst, Gary Illyes shared with the audience two technical ways Google determines when GoogleBot, its crawler, should slow down or stop crawling ...

Search Engine Land » Platforms » Google » Google Patent On Anchor Tags And Web Crawling Chat with SearchBot Please note that your conversations will be recorded. One of the key elements of how ...