spider
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- /ˈspaɪdər/
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- The search engine uses a spider to index new websites every hour.
- spider bot
- spider-based search
Examples
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Google notices these links when they send out their spiders to crawl your website.
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All internet search engines, including Google, send out "spiders" to walk the web.
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In the eyes of the Google spider, the old posts are particularly important.
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Make sure you tag the images on your site, because spiders are only able to read text.
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Robots.txt files direct search engine spiders on how to view your site.
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When you enter a keyword, a spider helps find relevant pages across the internet.
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Webmasters often submit their sites to alert the spider to new content.
Synonyms
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A computer program that visits websites to find pages for a database
Compounds
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An animal that lives in trees in the Americas with long thin arms and a tail that grasps branches
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A large spider that hunts on the ground and runs to catch other animals instead of using webs
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A plant with long narrow leaves and small white or pink flowers often grown indoors
A large North American spider with black and yellow markings often found in gardens
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A spider with a row of short stiff hairs on each hind foot that often spins irregular webs
An orchid that flowers in spring with pale outer petals and a large brown soft middle petal
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An imaginary creature people blame as a joke for a sudden noisy sound like a fart
A large orange and tan spider often found in barns that makes a new round web each day
A large crab with long legs and a spiny shell that lives in European coastal waters
A large spider from southern Europe once thought to make people dance uncontrollably
A tiny spider-like animal that makes fine webs and eats plant juice, damaging leaves
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A small red mark on the skin with a dot in the middle and thin red lines like a spider
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A small red spot on the skin with short red lines spreading like a spider
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A small red spot on the skin with thin red lines spreading out from the middle
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Etymology
The computer term spider is a picture word: like a real spider moving over its net, a program moves across the internet 'web' to find and collect pages, so the name helps you imagine it 'crawling' sites.