Difference between crawling and indexing?

[herischarles]

Hello friends, Please tell me what is the difference between crawling and indexing?

[Fli]

These two things are done by search engine like google.com
First they crawl / download some webpage and analyse it
Second, they add the webpage to their index / database which is used to supply search results when one is searching

[kabirthapar]

When search engine crawlers visit any link is called crawling and when crawlers save or index that links in search engine database is called indexing.

[sansastark]

When search engine crawlers visit any link is called crawling and when crawlers save or index that links in search engine database is called indexing.

Yes, in the different way you can understand that indexing is the result of crawling process