Contextualizebeta

metacrawler

noun

Etymology

From meta- + crawler.

  1. derived from *krabblōną✻
  2. derived from krafla
  3. derived from crawlen
  4. suffixed as crawler — “crawl + er”
  5. prefixed as metacrawler — “meta + crawler”

Definitions

  1. An application that searches the Web using existing search engines.

    • […] searched the Web by harnessing existing search engines. These types of applications are called metacrawlers, and are a useful way of aggregating results from many search engine databases.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for metacrawler. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA