Re: Google is a thief??
Posted by:
Thurston Moore
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Date: August 22, 2009 01:09AM
bloody blisters Wrote:
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> no really how does it work? do they have some sort
> of filter that catches everything posted on the
> internet? i have a question and want to learn. is
> that such an idiotic idea?
They are called "spiders", but really it's just a program that starts with one URL, retrieves the "page" at that uniform resource locator and catalogs all the text and <img src> code in the page, and then follows all the links (<a href> tags) and repeats the process.
They don't actually have those images, they just have the URL to those images, and they categorize it based on the context of the page it was on, any alt text in the img src tag, etc.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/22/2009 01:10AM by Thurston Moore.