What are Spiders, Robots and Crawlers and what are their functions?

Started by Anjelina, October 07, 2017, 02:26:57 AM

Anjelina

What are Spiders, Robots and Crawlers and what are their functions?

RH-Calvin

They are all the same and are different names of a search engine automated program that is responsible to read through webpage source and provide information to search engines. They are helpful to crawl and index webpages in search engines.
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Janvi

All three words have same term or definition because all are same. They access your web page when a query is occurring on the search engine and show the result on SERP.

jackar56

Spider - The browsers are like a program and to download the web page.
Crawler – The program is automatically to follow the links are web page..
Robots - It had automated computer program can visit websites. It will guided by search engine algorithms It can combine the tasks of crawler & spider helpful of the indexing the web pages and through the search engines.

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