Dec
23
2009
80legs: DIY Search Engine, for Free
You can now create our own webcrawler or search engine for free, using the services of 80legs, according to VentureBeat. While 80legs has been charging for its servies until now, it's decided to make a level of its services available for free.
Why the change? In an email announcing the free service, 80legs says it discovered that many users were crawling less than 100,000 pages. Since the Houston company was charging $2 per 1 million pages crawled, plus $0.03 for every CPU hour used, it wasn't going to make much money from those users. And since they were researchers, students, and bootstrapped startups, they didn't have much money to spend anyway.
The company has 2,500 users so far. It recently raise $00K in venture capital funds.
Search Engine News | admin | 23 December 2009 |
