SharePoint - Crawl

The following are SharePoint dictionary words of the day related to crawl:

Crawl

The process of traversing a URL to acquire items for a search catalog.

Crawl log

Provides information about the results of crawling a URL. The information includes if the crawl was successful, the content source that the display URL belongs, and the level, message, time, and identifier of any errors that happen.

Crawl queue

A structure that stores the list of items to crawl next.

Crawl rule

Preferences that apply to a specific URL or range of URLs. A crawl rule can be utilized to include or exclude items in a crawl. Additionally, the rule can specify the content access account to use when crawling a URL or range of URLs.

Crawl status

The state of the crawl operation (example In-Progress, Suspended, etc.).

Crawl type

Specifies whether to evaluate all of the users and member groups in the directory service that is crawled, or utilize those users and member groups that were modified after the last crawl.

Crawl URL history

A structure that stores a list of URLs and their properties, such as when a URL was last crawled.