How to Use web crawler in a Sentence

web crawler

noun
  • The maze is broken into two parts with a nursing home full of creepy old ladies and a spider lair full of creepy web crawlers.
    — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Meta, however, says the terms don’t change how the company uses web crawlers.
    — Barbara Ortutay, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Meta, however, says the terms don't change how the company uses web crawlers.
    — ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The organization uses web crawlers to capture snapshots of sites.
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Meta, however, said the update only applies to its ads and business products, and that how the company uses web crawlers is not changing.
    — Barbara Ortutay, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Cloudflare, a company that oversees much of the internet’s web traffic, is digging its heels in over AI web crawlers.
    — Samantha Elkins, NBC news, 1 July 2026
  • Moreover, the large-scale data scraping of Wikipedia by AI web crawlers placed a heavy toll on its servers, which are growing more expensive to maintain.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The drone strikes appear to have affected Yandex’s web crawlers, not any disinformation or political operations.
    — Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Interestingly, IDScan’s breach notification page doesn’t appear in major search results because the company added code to the site to prevent web crawlers from indexing it.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 10 Sep. 2026
  • This growth has naturally drawn the attention of font technology companies, some of which are enforcing end-user license agreements (EULAs) by using web crawlers.
    — William Jones, USA Today, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Wired reported that 23 news organizations, including USA Today and the New York Times, are among the 241 sites denying Internet Archive’s web crawler access to their articles.
    — Dave Lozo, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026

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