• yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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      10 months ago

      How does that work, does it go out and start indexing the internet for you?

      • whaleross
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        10 months ago

        It’s a meta search engine. It queries other search engines and compiles you results.

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          10 months ago

          That’s a shame, It would be more interesting to run your own crawlers.

          (Yes I realise that would be computationally intense and hard, but it would nonetheless be cool)

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            There is probably a neat wget oneliner that could crawl everything on the open web. The real challenge is how to index all the information. That might be a neat Perl oneliner.