How does this Website work?

nidalhajaj

New Member
I would like this thread to be a discussion on how different websites with complicated functionality work. Or how people could envisage the functionality being implemented.

To get the ball rolling this website below has troubled me as to how it works, I don't know whether it crawls add banners and if it does, how does it do it?

www.moat.com
 

jon123

New Member
Not sure but there are websites such as TinEye and Google Image search, which may contribute to hope this works. OR they may follow the ads and see which URL they end up at.
Their FAQ states:

Moat Ad Search is a search engine that focuses entirely on ads instead of other kinds of online content. Similar to traditional search engines, our results are compiled using a web crawler that is specifically tuned to look for ads on the web and index them for later retrieval. We also accept submissions from advertisers and agencies that wish to have their ads included.

http://www.moat.com/pages/faq#how-are-search-results-compiled

I hope this helps :)
 
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