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Automation of internet search
Author:	Dan Franklin
Date:	Tuesday, 2nd May 2006 14:17
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Category:	Internet Searching, Webmaster, eCommerce
URL:	http://www.freepint.com/go/b39598
My job involves regular (weekly) trawls of the internet for government tender opportunities in the police/military sector. We are looking to evaluate any software that may automate the process. Does anyone have any ideas? Let me know. Thanks Dan

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Topic	Author	Date	ID
Automation of internet search My job involves regular (weekly) trawls of the internet for government tender opportunities in the police/military sector. We are looking ...	Dan Franklin	02/05/06 14:17	39598
Re: Automation of internet search I don't know if this will help, but you might want to try the meta search engine Profusion (http://www.profusion.com/). ...	Charles Wiggins	12/05/06 20:22	40161
Re: Automation of internet search HI Dan, I have used Offline Explorer Pro to download the contents of specific web sitesI am interested in. It can be ...	Chuck Sciarini	05/05/06 19:45	39791
Re: Automation of internet search Thanks for those responses. However on reflection I see that my question was not really worded correctly. What i should ...	Dan Franklin	03/05/06 09:42	39621
Re: Automation of internet search Ah, ok. Well, I'm presuming that these are sites that use flat html, are not password protected, or contain the ...	Phil Bradley	03/05/06 11:29	39632
Re: Automation of internet search Thanks for the help, I'll look into the suggestions. Dan	Dan Franklin	03/05/06 12:41	39634
Re: Automation of internet search Dan, I guess it rather depends on the source of the tenders. For example, the TED stuff is on Factiva (and ...	Gareth	03/05/06 10:04	39625
Re: Automation of internet search I am not an expert with these types of things. But there are programs called bots that search the ...	Mark	03/05/06 07:37	39619
Re: Automation of internet search If you've got a search that works for you, then I would suggest going across to use MSN search. This ...	Phil Bradley	02/05/06 21:09	39608

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