What is a Web Spider?
Data consolidation or data aggregation is a big business on the
internet. This is often maximized through the use of web spiders.
For example, in any given industry, you might have 100s of different web sites all over the internet serving related
content. You would have to build a spider to collect the desired content for each web site to summarize and display in one location.
This prevents users from having to surf all over the internet and
saves user's time. Let these spiders do the leg work and let the back end processes
save, format, and display the data to the user as a web subscription service
instead.
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