Difference between Spider and Crawlers ?

[noahwilson]

Hi friends,
I want to know the difference between Spiders and Crawlers? please guys share your feedback.
Thanks for any suggestion.

[allenhill]

Spider - a browser like program that downloads web pages.

Crawler – a program that automatically follows all of the links on each web page.

[guptaabhijit318]

Basically there is no difference between spider & crawlers, the working of both are same although names are different. Spiders and crawlers are exactly the same. It’s the one that crawl your site for indexing and ranking. It can also be called as bots.

[pradeepsoftona]

According to my opinion crawler and spider both are the same process but we called him spider and crawler.

[jaysh4922]

Spiders,Crawlers, or google Bots are just programs the search engines use to index the content found on the World Wide Web.

[MikeQ]

I think these are the same, all of them visit your site to crawl contents then indexing process starts.

[Manov]

A web spider is a piece of software that scans your web pages and collects data for indexing. A program that automatically follows all of the links on each web page is called crawler.

[Arjun Patel]

There is no different basically between spider and crawler. It refers to a program which visits your website and crawl your website.