John Battelle

The 'old' Internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb. Sure, Google can crawl Facebook's 'public pages,' but those represent a tiny fraction of the 'pages' on Faceboo, and are not informed by the crucial signals of identity and relationship which give those pages meaning.

American Businessman

Robert Green Ingersoll

I say, let us think. Let each one express his thought. Let us become investigators, not followers, not cringers and crawlers. If there is in Heaven an infinite being, he never will be satisfied with the worship of cowards and hypocrites.

American Lawyer

Whitfield Diffie

People are leaving trails everywhere they go; automated web crawlers tell you an awful lot about their social activities. The flow of information in fundamentally unobtrusive ways into social control organisations has risen dramatically.

American Scientist

Markus Persson

I really wanted to make a dungeon crawler, but this game came out, 'Legend of Grimrock 2,' which was, like, the perfect dungeon crawler. It basically destroyed the genre for me, and no way could I make a game that good in that genre.

Swedish Businessman

Rose Leslie

It's kind of ridiculous, but I hate creepy crawlers. Like centipedes. It's just the fact that they have so many legs! I am not great with spiders either. That absolutely creeps me out.

Scottish Actress

Jai Courtney

I don't handle creepy crawlers well. I had a spider problem at a house in Australia, and one of my female friends had to come rescue me from it.

Australian Actor

Rob Manuel

Borderlands' came out of nowhere to appease the gnawing hunger left behind with the dearth of quality dungeon crawlers on the market.

Businessman

Used for beings that actually move by creeping on their belly or hands and knees.

Literal Meaning

Commonly used to refer to babies who have started to crawl before walking.

Baby Talk

Refers to heavy machinery used in construction and is recognizable by their tracks.

Construction Term

Despite its name, a crawler is not designed for carrying people but rather for heavy tasks.

Not a Vehicle

In computing, it refers to programs exploring the internet; imagine it 'crawling' through websites.

Web Navigation

'Crawler' has a high-tech vibe as it’s often associated with the internet and data.

Modern Context

When describing a person, 'crawler' implies negative behavior like excessive flattery.

Negative Connotation

Being called a crawler in a social context can be considered insulting.

Cultural Nuance

 institutions are becoming naked and if you're gonna be naked well that there's some crawler ease that flow from that I mean one is Fitness is no longer optional you know or if you're going to be naked you better get buff now by buff

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 impossible for it to support itself on two legs this ragged hunk of roadkill is a crawler if I were you I'd hold it till the next rest stop though its body may be inactive zombie fungus is still

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 And we can do this now. So what's next? Our imagination. This is a simulation of what you can achieve with this type of module. We decided that we were going to have a four-legged crawler

Origami robots that...

 We have power. This has never been used before with wolves. In fact this has never been used before with any animal. It's very much a prototype, but it's a rock crawler

Crawler

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