How many types of crawlers are there?

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How many types of crawlers are there?

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I heard that there are different types of crawlers to crawls videos, web pages etc. Is it true?
I want to know that how many types of crawlers are there.

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Different search engine crawler has a different name.
Google crawler name is the name of Googlebot, Yahoo is slurb robot etc. ..

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i think 3 types crawlers are there

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aqzseo wrote:i think 3 types crawlers are there

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Yep, there are many different kinds of crawlers. If you want to know them, you can search them in Google.

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There are probably thousands of them doing specific crawling tasks on parts of a site. Better not to think about them but follow search engine guidelines on ranking and how to present pages effectively..
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There is just one crawler. There are only other names called for it like spider.

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very confusing.
Is there any types?? please tell me.



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I have heard this first time. I am also wanted to know this.

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Each Search Engine has its own crawler:

Google -- Googlebot
Yahoo -- Yahoo Slurp
MSN -- MSNbot
Ask -- Teoma
AltaVista -- Scooter
Excite -- Architect spider
Inktomi.com -- Slurp
Alexa -- ia_archiver
Look smart -- Mantra Agent
Lycus -- Lycos_Spider_ (T-Rex)
Cuil -- Twiceler.

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The search engine use the crawlers to crawl the sites.The name is different for different sites.But the sites is not using different crawlers for the different objects of the site.

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thenyclinic wrote:Each Search Engine has its own crawler:

Google -- Googlebot
Yahoo -- Yahoo Slurp
MSN -- MSNbot
Ask -- Teoma
AltaVista -- Scooter
Excite -- Architect spider
Inktomi.com -- Slurp
Alexa -- ia_archiver
Look smart -- Mantra Agent
Lycus -- Lycos_Spider_ (T-Rex)
Cuil -- Twiceler.
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Every Search have its own crawler, Like Google have Google Bot, MSN have msnbot, yahoo habe slurp etc.

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Thousands of search engine are there and there have own clowler, you can easily find on net various search engine crawlers like Google -- Googlebot, Yahoo -- Yahoo Slurp, MSN -- MSNbot, Ask -- Teoma, AltaVista -- Scooter, Excite -- Architect spider.

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I think every search engine have only one types of crawlers who is crawl everything for search engine.

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