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@@ -17,11 +17,11 @@ Logging
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 - DEBUG+ level messages are logged to the console, and INFO+ level messages are logged to a file.
 - By default, the file for logging uses a TimedRotatingFileHandler that rolls over at midnight
-- Setting DEBUG in the settings toggles wether or not DEBUG level messages are output at all
+- Setting DEBUG in the settings toggles whether or not DEBUG level messages are output at all
 - Setting USE_COLORS in the settings toggles whether or not messages output to the console use colors depending on the level.
 
 Misc
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 - Designed to be able to run on multiple machines and work together to collect info in central DB
 - Queues links into the database to be crawled. This means that any machine running the crawler with the central db can grab from the same queue. Reduces crawling redundancy.
-- Thread pool apprach to analyzing keywords in text.
+- Thread pool approach to analyzing keywords in text.