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They're all identical and refer to Web crawler:

Other terms for Web crawlers are ants, automatic indexers, bots, Web spiders, Web robots, or—especially in the FOAF community—Web scutters.

I think that , and should be merged into .
Can we merge and synonymize them?

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  • I agree, they all seem to be synonyms.
    – neersighted
    Commented Dec 22, 2012 at 16:21
  • My only very slight doubt would be if there is a difference in usage - 'my site is crawled' vs 'I send out a spider' (for example).
    – DaveP
    Commented Dec 29, 2012 at 17:09

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I merged all of these. "Spider" didn't seem to have a different meaning, and in fact, most of the web crawling quesiton were tagged with "spider" anyway.

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