It doesn't sound like they are offering the data itself, only access to it, CPU cycles used for accessing it, upload of your own data, and such.
In other words, it doesn't sound like you can just download a chunk of data and do your own processing with it. That would be one mighty chunk! :) Otis --- Howie Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry if this is off-topic, but I was wondering if anyone saw this: > > http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69817,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 > http://websearch.alexa.com/welcome.html > > It seems like a pretty compelling solution for most specialized > search > engines for a very reasonable price. It's a clever way for a big > search engine to capitalize on the growing number of niche search > engines. I guess they figured if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. > > The only thing is that I'm not sure how flexible it is. If you do > lots > of custom semantic analysis, I'm not sure you can with AWPS. Maybe > it's possible to just download all the data you want, and then do > all your processing offline. Maybe in this case, you would still end > up using Nutch/Lucene to do your custom indexing? > > Howie > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through > log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD > SPLUNK! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Nutch-general mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nutch-general > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Nutch-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nutch-general
