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 UR… 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 Backgroun… 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 p… See more

For each stage in its development, I’m going to run three queries to see how the results improve as I improve my rankingsystem. Each query is chosen to reflect a diff… See more