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Pretty freaking cool! I'm a tea lover and this might just be the catalyst I need to start buying online.

[pedantic] This is more of an index than a search engine though. [/pedantic]

Nice:) At what point does a search engine become an index/directory? The site scans the tea websites for product updates periodically, but it does add contextual knowledge about the domain(tea) rather than general matching like google.

Well if it only crawls predetermined sites then it's an index plus a scraper. If it finds new sites, then it's a search engine.

At least I think that's the distinction.

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