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WiseNut: Distributed Crawling by Grub
WiseNut owner LookSmart apparently bought Grub back in January. Grub is a project in "distributed Web crawling" that offers a screen-saver that will then use a computer's spare clock cycles to do some Web crawling. If this can spread widely enough it could certainly help WiseNut's crawling and make WiseNut more up-to-date. Hopefully, people will not find ways to spam the crawling process. And I am not yet seeing any update at WiseNut yet (most of their results still seem to be from Autumn 2002).
Dated Mar 19, 2003 in
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