Do I need to manually process search results on the Internet?

    Each of us, I think, constantly googles. There are some tasks for which a cloud of time is spent searching for information. Of the last tasks that I have come across, you can, for example, note:
    • compiling a list of all online stores in Lithuania and Estonia, including tracking stores - clones and extracting contacts
    • compilation of a review of existing computer vision technologies, mainly realtime - identification of objects with a monocular camera, with a focus on embedded systems
    • overview of existing mod_php + mod_worker installations

    In carrying out these tasks, I just started dreaming of a man who would fulfill them for me.

    Background of the problem


    I think everyone recognizes that the search engine results are, in principle, a mess. Due to the search ranking on pr / tic / etc, in fact, professional, but not authoritative (read - not untwisted) resources hang around somewhere on the 5-6th pages of the results. Pre-processing the request (for example, realtime 3d object identification) helpfully palm off links from realtime linux to blender3d. Tungsten simplifies the situation a little, but its base is small. Plus, due to the general reprint of data, the first 50 links may generally point to the same resource.

    Let's dream


    Imagine that there is a service, domysearch.ru (it’s Russian, I am able to speak somewhere in 6 languages, but it’s more convenient to perceive information in Russian), in which I leave a request with the following content:
    Find suppliers of GPS devices in Riga and the Riga region, for the purchase of a batch of 30 pieces. Find out contacts, discounts, speed of order execution, the possibility of after-sales service. Provide a brief overview of the proposed devices.

    ... I pay money for it, and in a day I get an answer, in the form of a pack of PDF, plates, etc. I read this information in 5-10 minutes and make a decision.

    Why not myself?


    Why not yourself, you say? Everything is simple - it is economic efficiency. My work day costs 70 euros. It took two days to compile a list of Lithuanian online stores, totaling the cost of such work in the region of 150 euros. I am ready to outsource it for 70-100 euros, as this will save me ~ 16 hours of work, and during this time I will do something more efficient and necessary.

    Total


    Now, in fact, what I wanted to ask the habro-people - do you need specialists or services that, for some money, armed with modern Data-Mining tools, will look for information for you? Indeed, in just a couple of months of the operation of such a service, the constructed associative database will be more complete and more detailed than the Google database and other search engines. Is everyone happy with the loss of time for googling?

    For home reading


    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_mining

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