Search engines have become the gateway to the modern web. How often do you know exactly which page you want, but you search for it anyway, rather than typing the URL into your web browser? Like many great mach… See more

Let’s start building a machine that can download the entire web. I’m going to a build a web crawler that iteratively works its way through the web like this: 1. Start at a known URL 2. Download the page 3. Make a note of a… See more

Now that I know some URLs, I can download the pages they point to. I’ll create a Background Task that churns through my URL listmaking requests: Because it’s a Background Task, I can fire off a crawler and downlo… See more

Time to implement search. I’ve thrown together the classic “input box and button” UI using the drag-and-drop editor.There’s also a Data Gridfor listing the results, which gives me pagination for free.Each result will contain the … See more