How do they do this?

I'm looking at doing some affiliate marketing and I came across this site http://www.thefind.com.

How did they create this site?

It looks like they are pulling data from all these different merchants. I would love to create a site like this but have no idea of the technology behind this.

Any ideas?

JC

JC ,check the FAQ's http://www.thefind.com/main/FAQs.fhtml
They use a robot to crawl sites , then have a search engine database like google or yahoo.
mike

JC,

You can also Do it by using Affiliate Data feeds without all the High Tech Bot Technology...

Lots of Good info on the subject...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c...Search& meta=

Phil

Aloha JC,

I agree the technology is pretty cool. It's called "scraping" and as Mike said in his post, it is done by a web-crawling robot or spider.

I do not mean to rain on your parade, but the technology has been around for a few years now, and there are dozens of competing sites. I think the sun has set on this opportunity.

The big boy on the block is www.Froogle.com. From the boys at Google.

Aloha,

Jason