A web crawler (also known as a web spider or web robot) is a program or automated script which browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner. This process is called Web crawling or ...

When you look for something online using a keyword, the search engine goes through trillions of pages to create a list of results that are related to your keyword, according to CloudFlare. So how do ...

In the past few years, digital marketing has changed and evolved. It is no longer about using the right keywords and posting quality content regularly. Many new elements like user experience, local ...

Despite selling fewer handsets than Android, Apple's profits make it the undisputed king of the mobile phone market. Now, Apple could be set to attack Google's main source of profit as the company ...

One of the cornerstones of Google's business (and really, the web at large) is the robots.txt file that sites use to exclude some of their content from the search engine's web crawler, Googlebot. It ...

Google introduces GoogleOther, a new web crawler, to optimize operations, streamline R&D tasks, and reduce strain on Googlebot. Google introduces GoogleOther, a new web crawler, to alleviate strain on ...

Researchers in Simon Fraser University's International Cybercrime Research Centre are expanding their Child Exploitation Network Extractor (CENE)—an online "web crawler" that identifies and tracks ...

In the olden days of the WWW you could just put a robots.txt file in the root of your website and crawling bots from search engines and kin would (generally) respect the rules in it. These days, ...

MediaCloud, a Berkman Center project, and StopBadware, a former Berkman Center project that has spun off as an independent organization, have each built systems to crawl websites and save the results ...