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Re:A Look Inside Our 210TB 2012 Web Corpus on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @11:00PM (#6209725)
Just because you can do it without much effort doesn't mean less experienced people can. Crawling can be a barrier to some people.
Why can't they just write code that reverses the input?
Re:Blekko donates search data to Common Crawl on Monday December 17, 2012 @02:02PM (#4933744)
For me, blekko doesn't have to be "so much better" to make me use it over Google, it just has to be just as good or slightly better because I respect and support blekko's philosophy. If two products were of equal quality, wouldn't you rather use the one made by a company that shares your values?
Is the "Facebook infection" code open source? There is no link to the code.