Flashcard sets with a 'search engine' term meaning 'on the internet, a ______ ______ is a coordinated set of programs that includes: 1) a spider (also called a "crawler" or a "bot") that goes to every page or representative pages on every web site that wants to be searchable and reads it, using hypertext links on each page to discover and read a site's other pages 2) a program that creates a huge index (sometimes called a "catalog") from the pages that have been read, and 3) a program that receives your search request, compares it to the entries in the index, and returns results to you.'

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