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1. This search engine is different from any you've used before. Think of it as a search engine with an editorial voice, the combined voices of Lawrence Lee who edits Tomalak's Realm, Wes Felter of Hack-The-Planet, and mine, wearing the hat of editor of the Scripting News website.
2. Every night between midnight and 1AM Pacific, our crawler reads the news for the previous day on each of the three sites, and breaks it up into individual bits. Each bit is separately indexed. Usually the bit also links to an article on another site. We index that as well, but our crawler stops there. That's where the editorial voice comes in. If Wes, Lawrence or I thought it was worth presenting to our readers, it makes it into the search engine.
3. What do these three sites have in common? We all cover the web for web enthusiasts, people who develop for, invest in, or make decisions regarding the web. We have different perspectives, but when you put the three of them together, as we have in the search engine, you get a good cross-section of what's happening in web technology, marketing and politics.
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