The crawler considers almost anything followed by an asterisk symbol to be a token, except short words like a, an, and the .

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The statement seems to confuse the concept of a crawler with that of a parser or tokenizer in the context of text processing or programming languages. A crawler, typically used in web indexing, does not tokenize content based on symbols like asterisks but rather follows links and indexes content. Tokenization rules, including exceptions for short words, are domain-specific and vary by implementation, not a general characteristic of crawlers.

The Crawler Considers Almost Anything Followed by an Asterisk Symbol