alt Hacker News> I mean to go over a large collection of publicly or privately (to you) available pages and parse and collect the data, with idea of using it in other purposes.
I've always called that "learning" but I guess it's called something else when a robot does it :)
... The same way I might call something "gardening" or "weeding" when I do it, but for some reason, environmentalists call it "destroying the Amazon rainforest" when bulldozers do it to 27,000 km2 of vegetation in a year.