to spider
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- verb
- /ˈspaɪdər/
- Jargon
- Developers that prefer HTML also argue that because Flash code is compiled, there is no way for a search engine to properly spider the content.
Examples
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It's YOUR job to make sure search engines can spider your site.
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Just was spidering the German version.
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Would Google have spidered both sites at different times and thought they were duplicates?
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If you blog every day, there's a good chance Google and the other major search engines will spider your blog every day looking for that new content.
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To improve your site's visibility, you need to ensure that search engines can spider it effectively.
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When you update your content frequently, it encourages Google to spider your pages more often.
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Many website owners optimize their sites so that search engines can spider them efficiently and list them in search results.
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
- Informal
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An imaginary creature people blame as a joke for a sudden noisy sound like a fart
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A tiny spider-like animal that makes fine webs and eats plant juice, damaging leaves
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An orchid that flowers in spring with pale outer petals and a large brown soft middle petal
- Specialized
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A spider with a row of short stiff hairs on each hind foot that often spins irregular webs
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A large orange and tan spider often found in barns that makes a new round web each day
A large North American spider with black and yellow markings often found in gardens
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
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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
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Etymology
To spider a website means to have a program visit and index pages; the name comes from the animal because the program 'crawls' the 'web' like a spider moving over its net.