They created a piece of software, known as a robot, which scours the web, collecting universal resource locators (URLs) and noting links between them.
For young businesses and borrowers on the fringes of the banking system, risk assessment that scours the online world for information is better than a loan officer in a branch.Third, the fintech newcomers will create a more diverse, and hence stable, credit landscape.
The 46-year-old writer scours the social media for titbits of news from the plateau, passing them on through her blog, "Invisible Tibet", or on Twitter.
If she spots a promising piece of Earth from a plane, she scours the relevant parts of Google Maps to investigate further.
AS THE orange van cruises central Tokyo, Kan Suzuki, a politician from the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), scours the street for voters.
There is no time to admire the magnificent views of Boston harbour.They are an eclectic bunch: Locately scours credit card data to provide retailers with information about what else their customers are buying.
Today it scours the world for raw materials and sends out manufactures of every kind in return.
He not only refuses to leave, he scours the house for tasty morsels, spreading chaos as he goes.
In some, a destructive fishing practice called bottom trawling, which scours life from the ocean floor, is permitted.
Now the firms pushing such payment systems are struggling, whereas the familiar payment systems of the physical world credit cards, subscriptions, advertising— have moved online with surprising ease.The idea of a robotic market, too, where software scours the virtual world looking for the best and cheapest goods, even haggling on behalf of its masters, now looks naive.
Some spam software scours the web, "scraping" anything that looks like an e-mail address from websites, news groups, chat rooms and subscriber lists.
