March 10, 2021
Developing a comprehensive search engine for an industrial machinery company
In 2012, Dan Pinto and Dmitriy Rokhfeld created an aggregator that automatically collected information about used industrial machinery and heavy equipment that was for sale.
The idea of creating the service came to Dan when he received a work assignment to search the Internet for a printing machine. The task turned out to be more difficult than expected. You can’t buy such a machine on eBay, and comparing price lists on a thousand different sites takes a lot of time. So, Dan developed a technology for automatically collecting the information from websites and combining the data into one place.
