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Our unique distributed architecture stitches together computers from all around the world to deliver exceptional crawling performance at an incredibly low cost.

Sounds like they've got a botnet :| Of course, I'm sure it's nowhere near as insidious. But are they piggybacking this on top of some other distributed computing platform or service? Can I contribute (and maybe get paid for my time)?

Edit: Do some basic research, Tim... http://gigaom.com/2009/05/14/80legs-cares-about-your-bandwid...