"Web spider" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Web spiders [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} Web spider (plural Web spiders)
  1. (Internet) A software program that gathers specific information in an automated and orderly way from the World Wide Web. Wikipedia link: Web spider Tags: Internet Categories (topical): Internet Synonyms: ant, automatic indexer, bot, Web crawler, Web robot, Web scutter, web spider
    Sense id: en-Web_spider-en-noun-iJEJf~K8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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