What is the main purpose of a web crawler program? Can someone explain? or What is the main purpose o

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Yo, so a web crawler’s job is basically to collect data from websites and send it back to search engines.

Think of it as a robot that visits pages, reads the content, and notes down where everything is. That’s why when you Google something, results pop up instantly—it’s all pre-indexed!

Btw, they don’t *just* index. Some crawlers also check for broken links or track changes on sites.

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