How does Comparison Sites work?
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Need your thinking on how does these Comparision Sites actually work.
Sites like Junglee.com policybazaar.com and there are many like these which provides comaprision of products , fares etc. grabbed from different websites.
I had read a little about it and what i found is-:
- These sites uses Feeds of the sites data.
- These sites uses APIs of the sites which are actually provided by those sites.
- And for some sites which do not have any of these two posibility then the Comparision sites uses web-crawler to crawl their data.
This is what i have found out. If you think there is more things to it please do give your own views.
But i want to know these for my learning purpose and a little for curiosity-
- how does they actually matches the crawled data , feeds, and other so that there is no duplicacy.
- What is the process or algorithms for it.
- And where should i go to learn these concepts. References for books , articles or anything else.
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