Multiple times each day, Google recomputes the relative ranking of the world's Web sites. And it must index several billion new Web pages added daily. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

A Web crawler is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web, typically for the purpose of Web indexing. A Web crawler may also be called a Web spider, an ant, an automatic indexer, ...

Web users make a billion visits every month to websites of dubious character, according to a survey enabled by “web crawling” software developed by a US company. The survey, carried out over the last ...

A developer has discovered that Apple appears to be crawling HTML websites with its own automated bot, but the exact purpose of the mysterious homegrown software remains unknown. Evidence of Apple's ...