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Cederfjard on Oct 21, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: DuckDuckGo as a TTY

Is this perhaps a semantics issue? The linked document mentions parsing HTML, and that layout updates can break it. How would you describe the way googler operates?

Edit: Would ”web scraping” be a more apt description?

zmw on Oct 21, 2021 [–]

Yes, it's a scraper extracting results from HTML. Which is very different from a screen scraper...

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