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World Wide Web Robots, Wanderers, and Spiders

(none are spider)

World Wide Web Robots, Wanderers, and Spiders are all names for programs that traverse the Web automatically. They follow HTML hypertext links recursively to index large quantities of documents.

See also ``remote documents''.



Isabelle Guyon
Tue Nov 14 15:02:35 EST 1995