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good point. does using a website's internal search engine outperform google scraping the site itself which i think `ebay.com: motorcycle` does?
by volkk 9y ago
good point. does using a website's internal search engine outperform google scraping the site itself which i think `ebay.com: motorcycle` does?
- detaro 9y agoIt has a lot more site-specific tools available (e.g. with ebay filter by location, category, price, ...), so for me clearly "yes". Searching through ebay.com with Google might be useful in edge cases (e.g. to benefit from Google maybe having better fuzzy search), but is very different from using the actual UI. It's even clearer with things like wolfram alpha, which aren't indexable but respond to a specific query.