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Web spiders

Web spiders is the plural of Web spider.

Meaning of Web spider

Noun

Web spider (plural Web spiders)

  1. (Internet) A software program that gathers specific information in an automated and orderly way from the World Wide Web.
    • More precisely, the typical workflow of a vulnerability scanners consists of the following steps: – First, a web spider crawls the site to find valid injection points2008, Richard Lippmann, Engin Kirda, Ari Trachtenberg, Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection: 11th International Symposium, page 194
    Synonyms:
    ant, automatic indexer, bot, Web crawler, Web robot, Web scutter

Questions about Web spiders

What is Web spiders the plural of?
Web spiders is the plural of Web spider.

Words near Web spiders in the dictionary

  1. web shops
  2. web site
  3. web sites
  4. web space
  5. Web spider
  6. Web spiders
  7. web surfer
  8. web surfers
  9. web television
  10. web-based
  11. web-browser

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