TechnologyAugust 10, 2026

crawlers

KRAW-lerz

Definition

Automated software programs that systematically browse the internet to index or extract content from web pages.

Etymology

Derived from the verb 'crawl,' the term gained its modern computing sense in the mid-1990s, referencing how these bots move slowly and methodically through the web's structure like a spider crawling through a web.

In the news

In the article, 'crawlers' refers to the automated bots that scrape websites for data, which ShieldFont aims to mislead by providing them with incorrect information.

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