Definition of "spidering" []

• Present participle of spider. (verb)

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• "A search engine robot's action is called spidering, as it resembles the multiple legged spiders."
• "Listing 'submitting or registering' with a search engine is a step that could accelerate and increase the chances of that engine "spidering" your pages."
• "Interestingly, this was picked up yesterday and was posted to Barry points out at Search Engine Land, Google is blocking this kind of spidering in their robots. txt file and MSN is still crawling the information."