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Ran Geva

CEO

With over 20 years of experience in software development and leadership, Ran Geva is a serial entrepreneur and a web data expert. He is the CEO and co-founder of Webz.io, a leading global provider of structured web data feeds for enterprises, developers, and analysts. At Webz.io, he leads the vision, strategy, and technology of transforming the vast pool of web data from across the open and dark web into machine-readable data. He applies his skills in online marketing and digital marketing to grow the company's customer base and revenue. Previously, he founded Omgili, a search engine for online discussions, and co-founded Buzzilla, one of the top web monitoring and analysis companies in Israel. He is also a member of the Entrepreneurs' Organization, where he learns from and connects with other successful entrepreneurs.
24 Posts

Google News API: What It Is, Why Developers Search for It, and Why Webz.io Is a Strong Alternative

Google News API: What It Is, Why Developers Search for It, and Why Webz.io Is a Strong Alternative Developers, product...

Most Trusted News Sources to Follow in 2026

In a world where news spreads instantly, trust has become one of the most important filters in media consumption. Readers,...

In the Age of Infinite News, Trust Is the Real API

Every morning, millions of decisions begin with the same quiet assumption: the information in front of us is real enough...

The Role of News Sentiment in Understanding Current Events

News sentiment–the opinions, emotions, or attitudes presented in the news– can play a significant role in customer and investor behavior....

Crawling the TOR network – Challenge Accepted!

The following short story portrays the surprising technological and logical challenges we faced while developing our dark web monitoring technology....

New Feature: Filter Content by Exact Location

Leverage Image-Embedded Metadata to Derive Richer Data Insights When smartphone users click the shutter button when taking a picture, they’re...

Webz.io Image Recognition Helps Identify Illicit Content

How Webz.io Uses Image Analysis and Recognition to Identify Illicit Content on the Dark Web Collecting data from the Dark...

Auritus: Open-Source, Public Relations Monitoring Platform

The reason I started Webz.io is because I experienced the difficulties in collecting web data at scale when I worked...

3 Steps to Turn Webpages into Machine-Readable Data

The vast majority of us use the web every single day – for news, shopping, socializing and really any type...

Article’s publication date extractor – an overview

A few days ago I’ve released an open source Python module that provides you with a simple way to extract...

Dead simple {for devs} python crawler (script) for extracting structured data from any website into CSV

On my previous post I wrote about a very basic web crawler I wrote, that can randomly scour the web and...

Building a Better Search Query

Many factors can affect streaming data relevancy. When the data you consume isn’t ordered by relevancy, rather by the time...
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