An acquisition service may be implemented, for example, with awebcrawler.
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In the pull model, the software gathers content from sources using a connector such as awebcrawleror a database connector.
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Firstly it uses an automatedwebcrawlerto find and index gaming content.
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Dispensing with the old blog, the site deploys a state-of-the-art customwebcrawlerfor aggregating vast amounts of football data from around the world.
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Each library's system collects a copy using a specializedwebcrawlerthat verifies that the publisher has granted suitable permission.
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The offline subsystem automatically indexes documents collected by a "focusedwebcrawler" from the web.
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Scanning applications include backup utilities,webcrawler, search engines, and replication programs.
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Awebcrawlercan periodically traverse a website to see if any changes have occurred since its last visit.
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Awebcrawleris used to search widely.
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This is useful to make a page appear to be relevant for awebcrawlerin a way that makes it more likely to be found.
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Consider that authors are producers of information, and awebcrawleris the consumer of this information, grabbing the text and storing it in a cache (or corpus).
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Web scraping is closely related to web indexing, which indexes information on the web using a bot orwebcrawlerand is a universal technique adopted by most search engines.
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Modeling these communities and their information needs is important for several web applications, like topic-driven web crawlers, web services, recommender systems, etc.
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Most web directory entries are also not found by web crawlers but by humans.
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This information, referred to as a tag, included information like title, actors, and file format; and could help the web crawlers search for videos.
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