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The case for Neural Crawling: Inside the FUN project
Before a search engine can find anything, it must first build a collection of web pages to search through. This collection is assembled by a crawler – a piece of software that systematically visits web pages, follows links, and downloads content. The decisions the crawler makes about which pages to prioritise determine, in a very direct way, what the search engine will eventually be able to find. For over two decades, the dominant approach to crawling prioritisation has been PageRank and related