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Our service, 80legs, will let you easily do this. We let you specify seed links, how deep you want to crawl, and control many other aspects of the crawl. By default, we control the…

We actually have a surprising number of customers come to us at 80legs wanting to crawl google search results. I don't think most of them are trying to reverse engineer google or a…

Great question. We've actually done a lot of work on this to ensure that there isn't a problem with running the code on various people's machines. First, Plura actually runs the pr…

There's certainly no problem with individual users doing it. Just contact Plura through the web form at http://pluraprocessing.com/contact.php . Alternatively, you can use one of o…

Our service actually allows you to push your code into the system rather than trying to pull back all of the page contents. So, you end up running your semantic analysis, image ana…

Thanks, we will work on the wording. Just for clarity, we actually do custom crawls based on your needs. If you need to access one million pages, you tell us how to get to them and…

Thanks for the nice comments luckystrike. We had a great time at the Web 2.0 Expo and we've been overwhelmed by all the interest in our service. We're pretty hopeful that we've bui…

Plura affiliates actually accept responsibility for getting the permission of their users. Plura encourages disclosure and has found that it is actually very well received by the u…

Hi guys. We were actually about to do an "Ask HN: Review our startup" post, but I guess someone beat us to it. So, please review our startup. :) We are launching the beta today to …

Does this technology work using both images simultaneously? Or could lots of images be pre-processed individually into something that allowed a cheaper comparison? Just to try to e…

My angel group uses Angelsoft to organize the deals we receive from startups. I believe we pay Angelsoft for the privilege and get to use their tools to discuss and evaluate the de…

Very cool algorithm demo. How well would this compare to a very extreme JPEG compression? Also, I'm not an image compression expert, but I wonder if you could use this technique as…

Interesting concept, but this is not designed to find where your content has been copied onto other sites/blogs. That would be an cool service.

Wow, I just saw this. I was an early lender on Prosper to the tune of $15k. I "invested" it over a couple of months in about 100 different loans. I was considering it a test before…

No, it does not have to be a game. We're just focusing our initial affiliate marketing on games because of the higher engagement. The type of sites you mention will work well too. …

Yep, we'd love to find a way for it to work. If you have any ideas, let us know. :)

The apps that we're running right now control it pretty well using a sneaky trick. We can't get much computer information from java in an unsigned app, so we measure how long each …

These are all very good questions and we certainly know that we're not the first company to do grid computing on PCs. :) First, $1500/node-year (or even $200/node-year) comes to a …

Good question. There really isn't anything that stops someone from reading and trying to interpret the byte code. There is some protection in the fact that you never know what type…

Oh, and most developers use 50% so far. We have a download app that affiliates can distribute too if they want to. We can set that to run at different numbers when idle and in use.…

No, we tried to do this, but we can't run Plura in Adobe AIR. AIR uses Webkit for its browser, but Adobe has removed support for browser plugins, including Java.

Great! Fill out the form on the website and we'll get you signed up in the private beta.

Here's an example: http://pluraprocessing.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/example-appl...

We put it in terms of average simultaneous users because that's the way a lot of affiliates think. They say, we have an average of N people playing the game at any given time. For …