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You may start with reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler


So,using one of those crawlers presented in that article would be enough? I read something about Nutch,Lucene,Sphinx but I'm not sure how the process of building an agregator works: go crawl some websites,get the data in the database or disk, analyze the data, display the data according to some specified criterias. Are those crawlers spidering RSS feeds or a special crawler is needed for that? A diagram would be helpul...


Aggregation and Search are two different components. Full-text search ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_text_search ) will help you index the aggregated data, so that it can be searched through a UI.




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