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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - > - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - > - - > - Perseverance: When you're too damned stubborn to say "I quit!" - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
