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Company Offers Customizable Web Spidering 46

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday September 28, 2009 @05:41PM from the my-legs-are-longer-than-yours dept.

TechReviewAl writes "A company called 80legs has come up with an interesting new web business model: customized, on-demand web spidering. The company sells access to its spidering system, charging $2 for every million pages crawled, plus a fee of three cents per hour of processing used. The idea is to offer Web startups a way to build their own web indexes without requiring huge server farms. 'Many startups struggle to find the funding needed to build large data centers, but that's not the approach 80legs took to construct its Web crawling infrastructure. The company instead runs its software on a distributed network of personal computers, much like the ones used for projects such as SETI@home. The distributed computing network is put together by Plura Processing, which rents it to 80legs. Plura gets computer users to supply unused processing power in exchange for access to games, donations to charities, and other rewards.'"

Einstein- Husband, Lover and Father 215

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday July 10, 2006 @02:11PM from the man-myth-and-hairdo dept.

evilsheep writes "A large collection of correspondence shedding light on Einstein's personal life and perspectives was made public today by The Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Spanning almost 3500 pages, the correspondence encompasses letters to and from his first and second wives and children between the years 1912- 1955.This newly released batch of letters fill in details to create a 'higher resolution' image of Einstein beyond what was previously known of his personal life. The collection has been in the Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University for many years, but was not made public in accordance with the will of Einstein's stepdaughter, Margot, who specified that they not be revealed until 20 years after her death. Margot died in July 1986. Einstein wrote almost daily letters to his second wife Elsa and to her daughter Margot whilst away from home about delivering and listening to boring lectures, playing music with friends, or trying to stop smoking."

Comment Just a thought (Score 1) 688

by shiondev on Monday January 12, 2004 @04:18PM (#7955454) Attached to: Obtaining Replacement Parts for Your Laptop?

I just created a new website called www.pricetag.com - you could post a request to buy what you're looking for and maybe someone will see it and be able to sell it to you. There's no risk since it's free of charge.

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