Difference between Spider and Crawlers ?

noahwilson

Hi friends,I want to know the difference between Spiders and Crawlers? please guys share your feedback.Thanks for any suggestion.

jaysh4922

Spiders,Crawlers, or google Bots are just programs the search engines use to index the content found on the World Wide Web.

dgcyber

Spider is a program that scans web-page and collect data for indexing but crawler automatically follows links on webpage.

tobris

Both are same, spiders and crawlers both are used to scan the webpages and after that it index that information in Google Database. Google Bot is also it's another name.

allenhill

Spider is a program which on a certain time go and read a webpage like a user ( it means it is something like a browser).
Crawler is the manager of spider.it read the links and says to spider when, where and how deep goes into a website.

dgcyber

Spider is a browser like program that downloads web pages while Crawler is a program that automatically follows all of the links on each web page.

RH-Calvin

Spiders and crawlers are the same with different names. They are search engine automated programs that are responsible to read through webpages and provide information to search engines.

ShreyaKoushik

Spider- A spider is a program run by a search engine to build a summary of a website’s content (content index). Spiders create a text-based summary of content and an address (URL) for each web page.

Crawlers - Crawlers or Crawling takes place when there is a successful fetching of unique URIs which can be traced from valid links from other web pages.

Jeff Marlon

Crawler is basically named by Google that it's crawler visits websites to index pages. Otherwise crawler of other search engines such as Bing, Ask, etc. are called spiders.