Multiple times each day, Google recomputes the relative ranking of the world's Web sites. And it must index several billion new Web pages added daily. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

A Web crawler is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web, typically for the purpose of Web indexing. A Web crawler may also be called a Web spider, an ant, an automatic indexer, ...

The NSA is good at gaining access to the computers of others, but its own systems were not good enough to prevent former contractor Edward Snowden from walking way with over 200,000 classified ...

If you've been following the tale behind Wikia, you would know that Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has something up his sleeve that he believes will revolutionize the way we all search the web. CNET ...

Web users make a billion visits every month to websites of dubious character, according to a survey enabled by “web crawling” software developed by a US company. The survey, carried out over the last ...