Spider: Search engine crawlers which search or 'spider' the web for pages to include in the index. Many non-traditional search companies have different spiders which perform other applications. For example, TurnItInBot searches for plagiarism. Spiders should obey the robots.txt protocol.

 

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Spiderling: A tiny, immature spider, usually the form just emerged from the egg sac.

Spider Trap: an endless loop of automatically generated links which can “trap” a spider program. Sometimes intentionally used to prevent automated scraping or e-mail address harvesting.

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Epigynum: The more or less complicated apparatus for storing the spermatozoa, immediately in front of the opening of the internal reproductive organs of female spiders.

Epigyne: A more or less sclerotized and modified external structure associated with the reproductive openings of adult females of most spider species.

Hackled Band: The composite threads of the cribellate spiders, spun by cribellum and combed by the calamistrum.

Haplogyne: The group of spiders in which the females have no epigyne.

Entelegyne: The group of spiders in which the females have an epigyne.

Femur: The upper leg bone.