80Legs Is Where SETI@home Meets Google
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80Legs, a startup that aggregates CPU cycles and bandwidth to offer companies a Google-like web crawling service on demand, today launched its public beta at the DEMO conference in San Diego. The Houston-based company has raised $400,000 from Creeris Ventures to provide its web crawling service. 80Legs contracts with another Houston-based company funded by its investors to get access to volunteer’s CPU cycles, much like the [email protected] project, in which PC users offer up computer power to search for signals from extraterrestrials. And the end result of all this computing largess is the 80Legs service, where market researchers, video-recognition startups, and even advertising companies can buy the ability to search the web on someone else’s infrastructure on a per-instance basis. For those who fancy a cheap web crawl, GigaOM readers have access to 50 invites.
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