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Nice:) At what point does a search engine become an index/directory? The site scans the tea websites for product updates periodically, but it does add contextua
by mmcdan 16y ago
Nice:) At what point does a search engine become an index/directory? The site scans the tea websites for product updates periodically, but it does add contextual knowledge about the domain(tea) rather than general matching like google.
- Swizec 16y agoWell if it only crawls predetermined sites then it's an index plus a scraper. If it finds new sites, then it's a search engine. At least I think that's the distinction.