as in snail
someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others
he's always the crawler who makes everyone else late
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The Brave engine under the hood has implications for individuals, organizations, or companies that might want to block Claude from accessing their sites since, presumably, Brave's web crawler is doing the web indexing.
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Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2025
Restaurants and Bars Foodies and pub crawlers will find a wide collection of restaurants and bars in Celestial Park designed to rival the culinary nirvana of Epcot’s World Showcase.
—Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 19 Mar. 2025
The crawlers – computer programs, not insects – scour the web to collect data and save web pages.
—Matthew Kaufman, CNN, 18 Feb. 2025
Co-founder Jason Aramburu half-jokingly likens his future vehicles to the Jawa crawlers from Star Wars—ones that scavenge for stalks and corncobs instead of dead robots.
—Andrew Rosenblum, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024
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Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2025
Restaurants and Bars Foodies and pub crawlers will find a wide collection of restaurants and bars in Celestial Park designed to rival the culinary nirvana of Epcot’s World Showcase.
—Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 19 Mar. 2025
The crawlers – computer programs, not insects – scour the web to collect data and save web pages.
—Matthew Kaufman, CNN, 18 Feb. 2025
Co-founder Jason Aramburu half-jokingly likens his future vehicles to the Jawa crawlers from Star Wars—ones that scavenge for stalks and corncobs instead of dead robots.
—Andrew Rosenblum, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024
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“Crawler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crawler. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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