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Glossary

RAM: Random Access Memory is the name for a fast memory that can be read and also be written to in any order.
Robot: Also called spider or crawler. A program which scans and analyzes HTML documents for further processing (e.g. for a search engine). During the scanning process, the program may also automatically follow hypertext references in the documents, so that the complete document tree of a web-site can be caught.
ROM: Read Only Memory is the name for fast memory that can be read in any order but not be written to.