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Ah, now that really is random! One idea for sifting parking pages that comes to my mind is using image recognition. I can easily tell when something is a park
by ALittleLight 6y ago
Ah, now that really is random! One idea for sifting parking pages that comes to my mind is using image recognition. I can easily tell when something is a parking page by looking at it, I bet you could get an ML model to do so with pretty good accuracy too.
There is a class called fast.ai [1] which I personally found to be an amazing introduction to machine learning / deep learning. The first hour and a half course gets you using their library to make an image classifier that can differentiate dog and cat breeds. I bet by simply gathering training data (sites that are and are not parking pages) and reusing the same architecture used in that first class you could train a model that does a pretty good job of it.
Once you could classify pages you could just pre-compute a large list, classify, throwaway all the parking pages, and make the remainder available to your user.
1 - https://www.fast.ai/ https://www.fast.ai/
- benbristow 6y agoHaha, cheers. That sounds pretty fun. Knowing myself though I'd just make a manual checker as most of the parking sites are ran by a few companies (e.g. GoDaddy etc.) so they'd be pretty easy to pick-up.
- claymav 6y agoThat plus a keyword search for words like parked, parking, buy now, etc. Might have similar effectiveness!