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The Difference Between Crawling and Indexing Monday, August 11, 2008

The terms crawling and indexing (and indexing's cousin, caching) are frequently used together, but you should not consider them synonyms.

Exact definitions probably differ from person to person, but read how Erik Dafforn explains the processes here: http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2008/08/the_difference_1.html