Search Engines -- Spiders or Crawler Name

[Tisankit]

Hi Every one ,

A crawler is a program of search engines which visit on the web pages automatically to read, store and index them; whatever on the web pages. Its another name are web spider, web robot, ants, bots, worms etc. but here I am talking about the name of major search engines spider. Below is the list -

Search Engines -- Spiders or Crawler Name

Google -- Googlebot
Yahoo -- Yahoo Slurp
MSN -- MSNbot
Ask -- Teoma
Altavista -- Scooter
Excite -- Architext spider
Inktomi.com -- Slurp
Alexa -- ia_archiver
Looksmart -- MantraAgent
Lycus -- Lycos_Spider_(T-Rex)
Cuil -- Twiceler.

 

[jithuden]

Really useful information thanks for sharing

 

[bobwilson37]

Really that's a great information and also thanks for explaining the difference between a crawler and a spider..Good Job..Keep Posting...

 

[thesslstore]

Good information sharing. Thanks.

 

[Robdale]

Never thought, bots could have names. Thanks for the share.:thumbsup: