FYI

A web crawler is a relatively simple automated program, or script, that 
methodically scans or "crawls" through Internet pages to create an index of 
the data it's looking for. Alternative names for a web crawler include web 
spider, web robot, bot, crawler, and automatic indexer.

There are many different uses for a web crawler. Probably the most common 
use associated with the term is related to search engines. Search engines 
use web crawlers to collect information about what is available on public 
web pages. Their primary purpose is to collect data so that when Internet 
surfers enter a search term on their site, they can quickly provide the 
surfer with relevant web sites

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From: "Mike Pietruk" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] automated data collection tools


> What would be the advantage of using a web crawler tool rather than a
> search engine such as Google?
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