Check out <a href="http://drupal.org/project/managingnews">http://drupal.org/project/managingnews</a> (disclaimer: I work at Development Seed, which is the company that built this.)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:09 PM, brendan, <a href="http://fresh-off.com">fresh-off.com</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hello@fresh-off.com">hello@fresh-off.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have a client that wants to know if there are any Drupal
modules that search the web for content related to him and his company, and can
then return the results (full articles or links to the content) to his drupal
website. For example, search the web for instances where "<b>john
doe</b>" + "<b>XYZ Company</b>" both appear in the same piece of
content. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Creating the crawler is way beyond my technical ability, so I'm
hoping there are some good open source (preferably a Drupal module) options for
this functionality. Wikipedia has a list of open source web crawlers, but
since this is a subject I'm unfamiliar with, I'm unsure about whether or not they
can be integrated with Drupal - or if any open source web crawlers are even meant
to be integrated with a CMS. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A little bit more info about the use case: He and his
company operate in the education field and are constantly being featured in
articles (interviews, write-ups, etc) across the web. In addition - and
most importantly - he and his company produce several papers/articles
that are featured in articles and education related blogs across the internet
as well. He is finding that searching manually for this content to be impractical
and thus, would love to have it automatically aggregated and sent to his Drupal
site.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any thoughts, ideas, or pointers in the right direction
would be apprecaiated!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);">brendan, <a href="http://fresh-off.com" target="_blank">fresh-off.com</a></span></b></p>
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