Meet Our Web Spider

 

Now don't you laugh.  Our Web Spider works very hard and smart to help you make money.  We've been feeding and training him for several years.  He knows his way around Internet book sites just like they were in his own back yard.  Some folks also call him a Web Crawler.  He doesn't mind.

 

Enormous heaps of information and data are published on the Internet.  All you need to do is know where to find it, and sift through the trash and glean out the meat.  We got very tired of doing this manually, so we started teaching our spider the ins and outs of surfing the Web..

 

He is already the best employee I've ever had.  He is on a 24/7 schedule, never makes a mistake, and never wants to be fed.  So far, he has resolved hundreds of thousands of ISBNs for us.

 

 

 

As programmers, we generally do not enjoy manual labor, nor can we focus very long on repetitive tasks.  When we first opened our bookstore we had about 16,000 books to label and place into inventory, fast!  We understood using and implementing bar-code readers (because of previous development endeavors), and had reason to believe that the ISBN bar-codes were put on almost every book for a good reason.  We decided to apply our trade at automating the task.

Wow, what an idea.  Just scan the ISBNs and presto, all of the information is right there, ready to print on a label.

 

But where does this ISBN information reside.  Yes, you can rent an ISBN Database, (for as much as you can rent our entire system) but its all there on the Internet.

 

Enter Our Web Spider!

 

 

 

Our spider does a lot. In addition to retrieving information about ISBNs, we use him extensively to power our Internet sales.  Because of the data we gleaned from various Internet sites, our Christmas 2003 Internet sales were in excess of $100,000.00... Christmas 2004... greater that $600,000.00 (we learned a lot last year!).  See Our Numbers for yourself. Without our spider, it would have taken a staff of scores of employees to accomplish this.

 

You will use our spider extensively with BookAccents.  His job is to retrieve detailed information about ISBNs, and return that information to your computer.  Want to give our spider some exercise?