crawler

Traveling at a top speed of just 0.82 mph, the crawler moved the massive Moon rocket steadily toward the launch pad.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 19, 2026

When the crew of the colonization mission discover that their new home, an ice planet called Niflheim, is inhabited by armadillo-like crawler creatures, they wonder what to do about this unanticipated roadblock in their efforts.

From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2025

Publishers could also try to protect their content from Google by forbidding its web crawler from sharing any content snippets from their sites.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2024

Or, maybe, the featured Google snippet will tell you that eggs can melt, thanks to a nonsense Quora answer caught in the search crawler.

From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2024

“A crawler can live a month with no food if it has water. And don’t bother feeding Gox. Treflex will hold her for longer than our journey will last.”

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

Meanwhile, Time is helping advertisers get their messages in front of bots, using a sort of Trojan horse approach—creating text-based ads that regular readers never see but that AI crawlers might find.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Cloudflare's tech targets AI firm bots - also known as crawlers - programmes that explore the web, indexing and collecting data as they go.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2025

If there’s been an even more difficult task than policing predatory A.I. crawlers, it’s been keeping Reddit interactions personal, healthy, and as bot-free as possible.

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2025

When Adam Cooper came across an old junkyard filled with RVs and rock crawlers in South Central, he immediately saw its potential.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2024

“Most of the creatures in the Underland, the crawlers, the bats, the fish, they have no need of light. We humans are lost without it.”

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins