Even though I read Parts 1 and 2, I'm not sure I fully understand the difference between web crawling and indexing.
It seems to me that web crawling is the initial set of steps a search engine takes to find something and indexing is what happens to the results once they are found? Both methods use algorithms and may queue the results based on popularity. The similarities seem so striking as to be confusing to me. Maybe this will be fleshed out in class.
Erin, I totally agree about this article. I felt like I didn't fully grasp the definitions as well. Actually, the Wikipedia document for "web crawler" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler) really helped in my understanding of crawlers and indexing. It's very basic and simple and hopefully it will help you too. I'm definitely interested in learning more about it class next week.
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