Re: building a meta search engine

Thanks for the reply. I am aware of the Java capabilities and how this
task is done in theory. I am more interested in performance and
practical issues. Parsing HTML is not a lightweight task, so languages
like PHP or Perl are hardly suitable for it. I don't want to touch C, so
Java seems to me like the best option... Another thing is that, coming
up with a parser from scratch seems like an awful waste of time to me,
considering languages like Python come up with a basic XML/HTML parser
out of the box. Are there any good Java parsers out there? Things like
POST/GET requests, support for multiple results pages, high degree of
customization would be nice

acme.com has (not exactly what you need, but) very interesting html parser.

Andrey

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