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Using a web crawler: By using a web crawler (e.g., the Internet Archive) the service will not depend on an active community for its content, and thereby can build a larger database faster.
A Web crawler starts with a list of URLs to visit. Those first URLs are called the seeds.As the crawler visits these URLs, by communicating with web servers that respond to those URLs, it identifies all the hyperlinks in the retrieved web pages and adds them to the list of URLs to visit, called the crawl frontier.
A robots.txt file contains instructions for bots indicating which web pages they can and cannot access. Robots.txt files are particularly important for web crawlers from search engines such as Google. A robots.txt file on a website will function as a request that specified robots ignore specified files or directories when crawling a site.
[11] [12] Google has a Sitemaps program to help webmasters learn if Google is having any problems indexing their website and also provides data on Google traffic to the website. [13] Bing Webmaster Tools provides a way for webmasters to submit a sitemap and web feeds, allows users to determine the "crawl rate", and track the web pages index status.
The donated data helped Common Crawl "improve its crawl while avoiding spam, porn and the influence of excessive SEO." [11] In 2013, Common Crawl began using the Apache Software Foundation's Nutch webcrawler instead of a custom crawler. [12] Common Crawl switched from using .arc files to .warc files with its November 2013 crawl. [13]
To reduce the overhead due to the exchange of URLs between crawling processes, the exchange should be done in batch, several URLs at a time, and the most cited URLs in the collection should be known by all crawling processes before the crawl (e.g.: using data from a previous crawl). [1]
Google is using a complex system of request rate limitation which can vary for each language, country, User-Agent as well as depending on the keywords or search parameters. The rate limitation can make it unpredictable when accessing a search engine automated, as the behaviour patterns are not known to the outside developer or user.