Crawling in a sentence as a noun

It sort of backfired on them when google stopped crawling their pages.

Facebook has been crawling links for ages every time you post on the site.

I believe that search engine bots crawl Hacker News hard enough that PG blocks most crawling by bots.

After 1 month, I dropped the course and went crawling back on my knees to the Algo prof, and begged him to take me on.

That takes precedence and is the reason why I believe PG blocks most bots: so that crawling doesn't overload the site.

I put a lot of effort into making the crawling as benign and unobtrusive as possible, so I definitely do NOT try to brute force devices.

The place was extremely busy with families and children everywhere--and also crawling with police.

Too many soldiers died because the common procedure for clearing a building broke down in structures of irregular layout and in cities crawling with hostiles.

It's obviously been crawling support tickets/emails with people complaining about non-forthcoming copy: How long before any meaningful development.

Crawling definitions

noun

a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body; "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep"

See also: crawl creep creeping