as in snail
someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others
he's always the crawler who makes everyone else late
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That crawler is used to help ChatGPT link to and surface websites in search results, but it is not used to train OpenAI's foundation models.
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Ina Fried, Axios, 2 Dec. 2024
The Czech capital of 1.3 million people has for a long time been a popular destination for noisy stag parties and pub crawlers, largely from Britain.
—Afp, Fortune Europe, 15 Oct. 2024
Though engineers have devised tricks for steering crawlers away from such spam clusters, even Google’s crawlers still from time to time capture billions of unique URLs redirecting to the same place.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Feb. 2011
For years, however, the face of the gigantic crawler eluded scientists—Arthropleura fossils discovered since the 1800s were often only remnants of headless exoskeletons left behind during molting.
—Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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Ina Fried, Axios, 2 Dec. 2024
The Czech capital of 1.3 million people has for a long time been a popular destination for noisy stag parties and pub crawlers, largely from Britain.
—Afp, Fortune Europe, 15 Oct. 2024
Though engineers have devised tricks for steering crawlers away from such spam clusters, even Google’s crawlers still from time to time capture billions of unique URLs redirecting to the same place.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Feb. 2011
For years, however, the face of the gigantic crawler eluded scientists—Arthropleura fossils discovered since the 1800s were often only remnants of headless exoskeletons left behind during molting.
—Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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“Crawler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crawler. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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