Is Google a web crawler?

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Is Google a web crawler?

[PrimeItSolution]

A web crawler is an automated program that systematically browses the Internet for new web pages. This is called web-indexing or web-spidering. Google and other search engines use web crawlers to update their search indexes.

[WoodsPainting]

Web crawler is an 'agent' or program that navigates through the pages of one or more websites and possibly stores the data sent by the server. These agents are also called bots or robots and their 'ethics' are generically governed by robots.txt given on the site.

[asad1997]

When Google visits your website for tracking purposes. This process is done by Google’s Spider crawler.

[asad1997]

When Google visits your website for tracking purposes. This process is done by Google�s Spider crawler.

[PoolMaster]

A crawler is a program used by search engines to collect data from the internet. When a crawler visits a website, it picks over the entire website's content (i.e. the text) and stores it in a databank. It also stores all the external and internal links to the website.

[RH-Calvin]

A web crawler is a search engine automated program that is responsible to read through webpage sources and provide information to search engines.