Difference between spider and crawler.

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    Please give information about spider and crawler in detail. And how they work?
     
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  2. optimizer

    optimizer Well-Known Member

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    No difference
     
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  3. Genesis1

    Genesis1 Peon

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    no difference actually, sounds different but it's all the same
     
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    Both are same. They crawl our site & update our site in search engines database with the updated pages or information
     
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    1. Spider - a browser-like program that downloads web pages.
    2. Crawler – a program that automatically follows all of the links on each web page.

    The main purpose of the web-spider is to crawl web pages, read and collect the content and follow the links both internal and external, the spider then bring back the information that is crawled...
     
    alokseo, Dec 8, 2010 IP