Spidering the Internet: How Search Engines Crawl and Index Websites The internet is a vast and ever-expanding web of interconnected websites, and search engines rely on a process called "spidering" or "web crawling" to navigate and index this digital universe. Here's how it works: What is Spidering? Spidering is the process used by search engines to discover and index websites across the internet. Automated programs, called "spiders" or "bots," crawl web pages, following links from one page…
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