An interesting development might be the emergence of services that effectively function as 80legs resellers. Shortly after 80legs's debut, some guys from my company approached a vendor at a conference who offered SEO-focused crawling services. The tool is in alpha and we are still waiting for an invite, but based on the data points that this tool is capable of harvesting, as well as the price point (very similar to 80legs) I began to suspect that their custom code relies on the 80legs backend.
I've been using 80 legs heavily for the last 6 weeks. I've held off a blog post to give them a chance to fix some issues I've hit, but overall they're an awesome service.
A massive plus is their helpfulness. Shion, who commented on this post, even wrote a bunch of custom code for me!
You see, it runs on Plura, which is essentially spyware piggybacked on the flash game du jour. Desktop Tower Defense is one of their clients. When you play DTD, they sell access to your computer, and use your CPU and your network connection to spider web pages.
80legs is so cheap because they don't have to pay for servers. Does that sound entirely ethical to you?
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 18.3 ms ] threadA massive plus is their helpfulness. Shion, who commented on this post, even wrote a bunch of custom code for me!
You see, it runs on Plura, which is essentially spyware piggybacked on the flash game du jour. Desktop Tower Defense is one of their clients. When you play DTD, they sell access to your computer, and use your CPU and your network connection to spider web pages.
80legs is so cheap because they don't have to pay for servers. Does that sound entirely ethical to you?