WebCrawler


WebCrawler

(World-Wide Web)A free World-Wide Web search enginedeveloped by Brian Pinkerton at the University of Washingtonand now moved to America Online, Inc. WebCrawler collectsURLs by searching the Internet and allows users to performkeyword searches through a World-Wide Web browser.

http://webcrawler.com/.

WebCrawler

(1) A search portal that searches other search engines for results, provides yellow and white page lookup and offers three levels of searching: general Web pages, news and photos. It also provides featured listings and site recommendations by category. The site is run by Infospace, Inc., which also owns the MetaCrawler.com and Dogpile.com brands. For more information, visit www.webcrawler.com. See Web search engines.

(2) A Web crawler. See spider.