Coming Thursday 12 November
Nick Timms · being written now
How to find every company that uses your competitor, part 2: scaling to millions of websites
Nick Timms · being written nowOur first scanner checked a few thousand websites in an afternoon. Now it checks 35 million, every month, and keeps the evidence for every detection. This is everything that changed in between.
In this note
- 1Where 133 million company domains come from, without scraping Google
- 2When a plain page fetch isn’t enough and you need a headless browser
- 3The DNS records that reveal tools no website shows
- 4Recheck schedules, nightly accuracy checks and spotting who’s leaving
- 5What it all costs to run, down to the Mac Mini
The rest is being written
Out Thursday 12 November
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