[thelist] Data Mining

Aleem wrote:
> > It depends what the data is. Explain in more detail please.
> 
> That data in this case would be the contents of the directory or part of
> it, like the web design category under yahoo for a specific region and
> any other directory listing for that example.

That would be not kosher to my way of thinking. Here's the web dev area
for Chicago, Illinois USA:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/U_S__States/Illinois/Cities/Chicago/Business_and_Shopping/Business_to_Business/Communications_and_Networking/Internet_and_World_Wide_Web/Web_Site_Designers/

See that:
"Copyright © 2001 Yahoo! Inc. All Rights Reserved."

If you want a directory, you should look at DMOZ - which is open source:
http://dmoz.org/ -- you can read how you may and may not use the data here:
http://dmoz.org/license.html

HTH,
	Joe
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