Saturday, 26 January 2008
Parsing Morrisons
Just finished spidering and parsing Morrisons, it came out at 360 stores, no idea if this is correct, but hopefully is about right. It is interesting the difference it makes as to how your web pages are constructed. Morrisons was quite tricky as it didn't have any type of browsable index, so a query needed to written for each postal district, which resulted in lots of duplicates which needed to be filtered, contrast this with a site like Tesco or Waitrose which linked directly to each page making the spidering very simple.
Wednesday, 16 January 2008
The mighty plan
What time is that shop open again? It's a question we all ask from time to time, and yet one which the web is quite poor at answering. Websites differ greatly in how they present opening times, sometimes they can be hard to find or understand. And what if the shop isn't open, wouldn't it be nice to present a list of alternatives which are open right now?
The goal of Opening Times is to provide a comprehensive list of opening times for UK shops and services.
I'm really keen to hear your thoughts on what can make this website work for you, please leave your comments below. Thanks
The goal of Opening Times is to provide a comprehensive list of opening times for UK shops and services.
I'm really keen to hear your thoughts on what can make this website work for you, please leave your comments below. Thanks
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