Dan,
You make a some good points.
JMO:
I have a theory, what if Atrinsic only sold the Spyder program? It is just software that they wrote, and, they could sell it.
What I rememmber reading about thiers, is it was advanced, something new!
This is what a basic web-crawler is:
A Web crawler is a computer program that browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner or in an orderly fashion. Other terms for Web crawlers are ants, automatic indexers, bots,Web spiders,Web robots,or—especially in the FOAF community—Web scutters.
It is a software agent.
Late sec filings are not good either, I agree.
Guess we will just have to wait and see!
Cheers!
o/
QQ
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