Software programs used by search engines which crawl the web visiting sites to analyze the keywords, headers, content, and links to other sites are called ________.
A)search aggregators
B)lexical analyzers
C)spiders
D)data harvesters

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Spiders, also known as crawlers, are software programs used by search engines to analyze websites by crawling through their contents, identifying keywords, and following links to other sites. The other choices (A, B, D) do not accurately describe the function of these programs.

Software Programs Used by Search Engines Which Crawl the Web