On 10/26/18 11:17 AM, bruce wrote: > 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 $$$ from ads around > search (paid search... how "gross!!) > > yeah rick.. we're old.. gimme my vodka! Scotch for me. Single malt, mostly Speysides (Glenrothes, Ben Nevis, Balvenie, Aberlour). In a pinch (or if I have extra $$$ lying about), Johnnie Walker Blue. Yes, it's a blend, but OH MY! WHAT a blend! Then again, it should be at $175/fifth! > 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 > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - "If you can't fix it...duct tape it!" -- Tim Allen - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
