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Recent Examples of crawler Traditional search deploys web crawlers to pull in information that matches keywords, but AI aims to answer a question accurately, taking into account intent and context. Raianne Reiss, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024 For another, crawlers aren’t obligated to obey what a robots.txt file requests. Peter Rubin, Longreads, 10 Dec. 2024 That flounder darting in front of the crawler’s camera from the Alkor’s dry lab? Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024 Before the update, website owners could restrict Google from crawling the results of internal searches, but crawlers at the time were now automatically able to discern which pages were deemed important to index. Elaine Mallon, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 27 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for crawler

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“Crawler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crawler. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.

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