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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2006
Vanessa Fox, Redmond, WA (US);
Amanda Ann Camp, Kirkland, WA (US);
Maximilian Ibel, Pfaeffikon, CH;
Patrik Rene Celeste Reali, Zurich, CH;
Jeremy J. Lilley, Mountain View, CA (US);
Katherine Jane Lai, Cambridge, MA (US);
Ted J. Bonkenburg, Mountain View, CA (US);
Neal Douglas Cardwell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Vanessa Fox, Redmond, WA (US);
Amanda Ann Camp, Kirkland, WA (US);
Maximilian Ibel, Pfaeffikon, CH;
Patrik Rene Celeste Reali, Zurich, CH;
Jeremy J. Lilley, Mountain View, CA (US);
Katherine Jane Lai, Cambridge, MA (US);
Ted J. Bonkenburg, Mountain View, CA (US);
Neal Douglas Cardwell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Web crawlers crawl websites to access documents of the website for purposes of indexing the documents for search engines. The web crawlers crawl a specified website at a crawl rate that is based on multiple factors. One of the factors is a pre-set crawl rate limit. According to certain embodiments, an owner for a specified website is enabled to modify the crawl rate limit for the specified website when one or more pre-set criteria are met.