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alxkn
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Hello,

I wondered how to write a search engine that searches not a local database but the internet for a specific files. For example take a look to imeem.com, where you can search for music files, videos and etc. Is there any books on this topic or open software?

Thanks.
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Christopher
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You might want to search for information of spiders, crawlers, indexers, etc. because typically search engines do not search directly, but gather information and organize it internally in a searchable form.
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