News tagged with web crawlers

Web crawler takes aim at child exploitation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Simon Fraser University’s International Cybercrime Research Centre hope a tool they’ve developed to track websites that exploit children can help police better investigate the crime.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

WOWD, the real-time search engine

(PhysOrg.com) -- The beta version of WOWD, the Internet's newest search engine, was launched last week at the 2009 Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. It aims to differentiate itself from other search engines ...

Technology / Internet

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (21) | comments 1 weblog

New metasearch engine leaves Google, Yahoo crawling

One day in the not-too-distant future, you'll be able to type a query into an online search engine and have it deliver not Web pages that may contain an answer, but just the answer itself, says Weiyi Meng, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (15) | comments 6

Internet can warn of ecological changes

The Internet could be used as an early warning system for potential ecological disasters, according to researchers from Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University and the University of East Anglia.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (25) | comments 1




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Examination of MySpace profiles supports alliance hypothesis for friendship

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's like Confucius says: Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Student Builds Spider Robot From Spare Parts (w/ Video)

Picture a spider-like robot that teaches itself to walk, can adapt when damaged and watches its maker as he moves around the room. That might sound terrifying.

Electronics / Robotics

created Feb 09, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (17) | comments 5

AP proposes new article formatting for the Web

(AP) -- The Associated Press is proposing that publishers attach descriptive tags to news articles online in hopes of taming the free-for-all of news and information on the Web and generating more traffic for established ...

Technology / Internet

created Jul 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dangers grow on Web from attacks

When people worry about the dangers of the Internet, a Web site built by the producers of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" is probably not what they have in mind.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Online magazine tries to be a lab for media future

(AP) -- The Web edition of a cover story from Fortune this spring took a sharp turn from what you might expect at a 79-year-old magazine.

Technology / Internet

created May 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Predicting and tracking pandemics: HealthMap.org tracking H1N1 flu hot spots in real time

At the end of July 2008, major news agencies reported an outbreak of jalapeņo-related salmonella that sickened more than 1,000 people in Mexico and the United States. It was the biggest outbreak of its kind ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Predicting pandemics: HealthMap.org tracks emerging hot spots in real time

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the end of July 2008, major news agencies reported an outbreak of jalapeņo-related salmonella that sickened more than 1,000 people in Mexico and the United States. It was the biggest outbreak ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 24, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Culture vultures go beyond, way beyond Google

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers are pushing online culture and heritage research way beyond Google by using a smart search system that is multilingual, multimedia and optimised for cultural heritage. ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 22, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pinning down the fleeting Internet: Web crawler archives historical data for easy searching

(PHysOrg.com) -- The Internet contains vast amounts of information, much of it unorganized. But what you see online at any given moment is just a snapshot of the Web as a whole -- many pages change rapidly ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 17, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study shows Google favored over other search engines by webmasters

Web site policy makers who use robots.txt files as gatekeepers to specify what is open and what is off limits to Web crawlers have a bias that favors Google over other search engines, say Penn State researchers whose study ...

Technology / Internet

created Nov 15, 2007 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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