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A comment on Ask HN: Rate name for our startup or propose your variant!.

Re:Ask HN: Rate name for our startup or propose your variant! by Finbarr on Thursday August 04, 2011 @06:47PM (#2848124)
Product sounds really awesome. I'm slightly confused by the name though. antsurfor.me - what is it meant to mean? I don't see any connection between the name and your description of the product.
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Re:Ask HN: Rate name for our startup or propose your variant! by yz on Thursday August 04, 2011 @06:56PM (#2848147)
In specialist's circles such software is known as web scrapers, ants, web spiders and crawlers.

I took an ant and made an anology with the turtle Logo graphics.

Imagine an ant which surfs the web for you given you provided the ant with the script of where actually to go and which data to harvest there

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