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Crawling

Website crawling is the process that automated software uses to scan through the pages of a website in order to digest the pages’ content and make it searchable.

Website crawling is the process that automated software uses to scan through the pages of a website in order to digest the pages' content and make it searchable. This type of software also examines links on a page as a means of fetching and indexing content.

In Yext Search

Yext Search does not rely on crawling to surface results. Instead, Search uses natural language understanding and your Knowledge Graph to provide direct results that are most relevant to a user.

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