Can you use PHP to search other sites?

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I'm looking for a car. Lets say I wanted to build some type of online application that searches websites for civils being sold, what would I use?

I guess it would be similar to a search engine or RSS feed, but the information is built from what it finds on other sites.

If its PHP you use, does this technique have a name or tutorial of some sort?
 
There are various free PHP bots out there; you simply need to customize them to retrieve what you're after and dump the data into a database, as sending out these bots every time someone makes a request would be a definite performance killer.

Simply search "php robot" and you'll find loads of code.
 
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