Okay, so the other day, I was trying to solve this crossword puzzle, and I got stuck on this clue: “Internet harvesting tool,” nine letters.
I started by brainstorming what kind of tools are used for gathering information from the internet.
- First, I thought about search engines, but those are more for finding specific websites than collecting data.
- Then, I considered web crawlers, which are used by search engines to index web pages, but that word didn’t fit the letter count.
I searched online for common terms related to data collection on the internet. That’s when I came across the term “data scraping“.
It seemed like a perfect fit because data scraping is essentially about extracting information from websites.
So, I tried to fit a word related to data scraping into the puzzle.
I thought about “scraper,” but it was too short.
Then it hit me: “DATASCRAPER“!
I entered it into the puzzle, and it fit perfectly! I was so thrilled to have solved that clue.
Summary
It was a bit of a journey, going from general concepts to the specific tool, but I got there in the end. I realized that sometimes, you just need to think about the different aspects of a problem and use resources like search to find the answer.