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  2. Googlebot - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlebot

    Googlebot is the web crawler software used by Google that collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google Search engine. This name is actually used to refer to two different types of web crawlers: a desktop crawler (to simulate desktop users) and a mobile crawler (to simulate a mobile user).

  3. Web crawler - Wikipedia

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    An example of the focused crawlers are academic crawlers, which crawls free-access academic related documents, such as the citeseerxbot, which is the crawler of CiteSeer X search engine. Other academic search engines are Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search etc.

  4. Timeline of web search engines - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft starts using its own indexer and crawler for MSN Search rather than using blended results from LookSmart and Inktomi. 2004: December: User experience: Google Suggest is introduced as a Google Labs feature. [34] [35] 2005 January: Webmaster tools: To combat link spam, Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft collectively introduce the nofollow ...

  5. Distributed web crawling - Wikipedia

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    Google and Yahoo use thousands of individual computers to crawl the Web. Newer projects are attempting to use a less structured, more ad hoc form of collaboration by enlisting volunteers to join the effort using, in many cases, their home or personal computers.

  6. History of Google - Wikipedia

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    Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg were cited by Page and Brin as being critical to the development of Google. Rajeev Motwani and Terry Winograd later co-authored with Page and Brin the first paper about the project, describing PageRank and the initial prototype of the Google search engine, published in 1998. Héctor García-Molina and Jeff Ullman were also cited as contributors to the project ...

  7. Google Search - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search

    Google Search (also known simply as Google or Google.com) is a search engine operated by Google. It allows users to search for information on the Web by entering keywords or phrases. Google Search uses algorithms to analyze and rank websites based on their relevance to the search query. It is the most popular search engine worldwide.

  8. Comparison of search engines - Wikipedia

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    Google Search: USA Yes Google data centers Yes No Un­known Kiddle: Yes No KidRex: Yes No KidzSearch: Yes No Lycos: Yes No Microsoft Bing: USA / China Yes Yes No Un­known Mojeek: UK Yes Custodian Data Centres Yes No Un­known Naver: Yes No Parsijoo: Yes No Petal: France Yes No Un­known Qwant: France Yes Yes Un­known Un­known Seznam.cz: Yes ...

  9. robots.txt - Wikipedia

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    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.