Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Purpose of botlist

What is the purpose of botlist? What is its role?

http://botspiritcompany.com/botlist/

A lot of web applications provide you with information based on your input. Google and yahoo work in this manner. You pull information from them based on some query. Botlist hopes to operate based on a push architecture. Much in the way that other news aggregation services works. Information is piped through to the botlist web application and the top articles and links are displayed to the user. The other links that aren't as popular will still be available through search.

Pretty simple, yet a lot of work. The back end crawler is built with a combination of haskell and python. Haskell for the content analysis and python for the crawler.

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