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It is good to know a little about how search engines work.
Search engines have spiders, bots or robots which crawl and index the text of websites automatically.
Select one:
a.
True
b.
False
The correct answer is a.
This is usually done by programmes called ‘Crawlers’.
If you want to know more about how a search engine like Google works then you could take a look at the Google guide.