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Dana Eagles of the Orlando Sentinel defines common Web terms to create an online journalism glossary.



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A spider, also known as a crawler or ant, is a program that makes methodical searches of the World Wide Web to provide information about pages for search engines. Spiders use hyperlinks from pages they find to identify even more pages, and all the information is returned to a central point for indexing by the search engine.
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