as in snails
someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others
he's always the crawler who makes everyone else late
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Recent Examples of crawlers
Leading Internet companies and publishers—including Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, Medium, The Daily Beast, Fastly, and more—think there may finally be a solution to end AI crawlers hammering websites to scrape content without permission or compensation.
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Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2025
The creepy crawlers were discovered in upside-down plastic tubs, and many of them died.
—Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Yes, Google still reads it, and so do other AI crawlers.
—Kim Komando The Kim Komando Show, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Shotland says that businesses should also avoid blocking AI crawlers, which could prevent them from showing up in overviews at all.
—Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
This work presents inflatable kirigami crawlers created by introducing cut patterns into heat-sealable textiles to achieve locomotion upon cyclic pneumatic actuation.
—Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 27 June 2025
Traditional search deploys web crawlers to pull in information that matches keywords, but AI aims to answer a question accurately, taking into account intent and context.
—Raianne Reiss, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Of a search engine’s parts, which include things such as web crawlers, ranking algorithms and the search interface itself, the index may be the most difficult to create.
—Ben Guarino, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2024
Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2025
The creepy crawlers were discovered in upside-down plastic tubs, and many of them died.
—Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Yes, Google still reads it, and so do other AI crawlers.
—Kim Komando The Kim Komando Show, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Shotland says that businesses should also avoid blocking AI crawlers, which could prevent them from showing up in overviews at all.
—Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
This work presents inflatable kirigami crawlers created by introducing cut patterns into heat-sealable textiles to achieve locomotion upon cyclic pneumatic actuation.
—Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 27 June 2025
Traditional search deploys web crawlers to pull in information that matches keywords, but AI aims to answer a question accurately, taking into account intent and context.
—Raianne Reiss, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Of a search engine’s parts, which include things such as web crawlers, ranking algorithms and the search interface itself, the index may be the most difficult to create.
—Ben Guarino, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crawlers
snails
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The bayous have become a popular breeding ground for intimidating apple snails from South America, which can reach 6 inches in width.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
10 Sep. 2025
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The subject of snails stemmed from Mercier’s long fascination with history and time — snails like alligators predate back to 500 million years ago with the only thing changing are their sizes.—
Hikmat Mohammed,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Crawlers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crawlers. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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