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Spider

Term · Computing and IT · MLC-T-CMP-001148

A program that systematically browses the World Wide Web, typically for the purpose of web indexing. Also known as a web crawler, it follows links from page to page, collecting information about the content. Search engines use spiders to build and update their indexes of web pages.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CMP-001148
FieldComputing and IT
SubjectInternet
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-CMP-001148",
  "term": "Spider",
  "field": "Computing and IT",
  "definition": "A program that systematically browses the World Wide Web, typically for the purpose of web indexing. Also known as a web crawler, it follows links from page to page, collecting information about the content. Search engines use spiders to build and update their indexes of web pages.",
  "subject": "Internet",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/computing/spider/"
}

Record 1,260 of 1,553 in Computing and IT terminology (MLC-0101). Request the full dataset.