SiteScooper looks cool and with over 150 sites, it is great. But there is some fundamental difference between SiteScooper and what I plan to do in NewsGrabber.

• Concentrate on News - SiteScooper scoops news, cartoons etc. I want to concentrate on news.
  
  
• Use only legal news backends - Did who ever is the maintainer of SiteScooper ask the USerfriendly guys whethere it is legal to grab their cartoons and display as they have done in their product ??? I did and they said that it might create trouble.
  If that is the case, how ethical is it to distribute such a product, because anyone using SiteScooper is also in line for legal trouble. If that is the case, how can SiteScooper be put in CPAN ??
  
  
• Make the implementation, change_free - SiteScooper grabs the relevant portion of any HTML page by identifying unique HTML tags or comments infront and after the relevant portion. This can become very unstable if the actual site owners change teh layout or start dynamic change of comments just to fool such grabbings. When I intially worked in Userfriendly cartoon grabbing, I too used this method. It can become unstable in no time if the other people are bent upon doing do .

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