What is the main difference in the 'action' taken by a crawler versus an indexer?

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What is the main difference in the 'action' taken by a crawler versus an indexer?
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The primary difference in action is that a crawler's action is to 'fetch' and 'download' web page content, whereas an indexer's action is to 'analyze,' 'organize,' and 'store' that fetched content in a structured database for fast retrieval.