Reply to thread

Message

[QUOTE="Munyaradzi Mafaro, post: 32145, member: 636"]
Search engines send little computer programs across the internet every day. These programs - nicknamed crawlers, bots, robots, or spiders - roam websites automatically without human control. When Google or Bing want to know what exists online, they release these digital scouts to visit pages and report back what they find. The crawlers collect information about websites and help build the massive search indexes that people use when looking for information. But these automatic programs serve different masters. Good crawlers help organize the internet for everyone. Bad crawlers steal content from legitimate websites. Dishonest people program these bad crawlers to copy text, images, and data from real websites. They take this stolen content and post it elsewhere to make money through ads or scams. Website owners often struggle to protect their original work from these digital thieves that silently visit and copy everything they create.
[/QUOTE]

Name