Tag: SITESCRAPING

Last week, to make inroads against the deluge of page-scraping content farms, Google carried out some changes to the way it ranks search results. The slow-but-sure subsuming of search results by content farms begun last year, but only really came to a head in January with a post by Stack Overflow co-founder Jeff Atwood. An outcry from the community followed, and culminated in a post by Matt ...

Though it may seem like everything has an RSS feed nowadays, lots of sites still lack the feature, leaving RSS fiends with no option but to actually surf the web (blasphemous!). Fortunately, there's Dapper: The Data Mapper, a web service that will take information from a site and package it in the form of your choice (RSS feeds, Google Maps, iCalendar, and more). In order to create a "Dapp," ...