PHP Web Crawler

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Joeiscoolone
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PHP Web Crawler

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I know that you can build a web crawler in PHP and that you can rank pages buy keywords and how many pages are linked to a page, so as far as a web crawler goes can PHP pretty much do anything C++ can do?
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feyd
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in this context, yes and often written far easier.. not necessarily faster running, but often a lot easier to write.
Joeiscoolone
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Thanks

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Thank you for answering my question. PHP is great it's cabable of alot of things.
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