Alta-Vista..
remember inktomi!
remember the "gurus" saying.. after alta-vista... "search is dead"..
there's nothing left!!
and along came page-rank...
remember
goto.com (pasadena).. and how if google hadn't/didn't rip off
the
goto.com biz model, google may not have made it!
goto.com.. what.. you're "charging" or making $$$ from ads around
search (paid search... how "gross!!)
yeah rick.. we're old.. gimme my vodka!
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 1:42 PM Rick Stevens <ricks(a)alldigital.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/26/18 9:25 AM, Tim via users wrote:
> > Allegedly, on or about 26 October 2018, Eddie O'Connor sent:
> >> "Crawling"....is that the same as "Parsing"?
> >
> > Going from page to page, or site to site, parsing the contents.
> > Whether that be following links from one page to another, using the
> > links on those pages, or following links from some other list.
> >
> > As opposed to just parsing the contents of one particular page.
>
> Other terms for what Bruce is referring to doing are "scraping" or
> "spidering". One uses a tool such as wget or something similar to walk
> down a website (or several sites), collect the data and "scrape"
> interesting tidbits into a database for use in some way. In some
> respects, this is what Google or Bing or Yahoo or (this'll date me)
> Alta Vista does to drive their search engines (I think Alta Vista is
> long gone--it was owned by DEC).
>
> A huge part of this is the pattern recognition bit and often employs
> different types of AI to extract the information one is interested in.
> It's quite an involved process and very impressive if it's done right.
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