Website indexing is one of the first steps (after crawling) in a process of how web pages are ranked and served as search engine results.

What is a crawler? A crawler (also called a spider or bot) fetches HTML on the Internet for indexing. To better visualize, think large stores of computers sending a program to download content.

The integration of OpenAI's technology into Microsoft-owned Bing has driven people to the little-used search engine and helped it compete better with market leader Google in page visits growth ...