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How is Nici different from web-crawlers and other picture downloaders?

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How is Nici different from web-crawlers and other picture downloaders?

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There are a number of differences between Nici and traditional web-crawler programs: • Nici does not blindly follow all links from a Web-Page. Nici analyzes the Web-Page and only follows links that it is reasonably sure will lead to the actual pictures. This means that Nici bypasses thumbnails, and does not waste your time and bandwidth downloading images you don’t need to see. Nici assumes that since there are so many new pages of pictures being listed each day, it is better to move on to a new page than spend 5 minutes blindly following links for no result. • Traditional web-crawler programs require you to manually enter addresses of Web-Pages which can be tedious. Nici recognizes that many Web-Pages exist that list and categorize pages of pictures, and enables you to make use of these pages to quickly add links to Nici’s download line. • Nici contains both a specialized picture viewer and a Web-Browser modified to view pages safely by removing pop-ups and other annoying “features” .