Ran Geva

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AI Takeover? 4 Big Web Data Predictions for 2024

Explore the top big web data predictions for 2024 and the impact of LLMs on web content.

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4 Top Web Data Predictions for 2023 and Beyond

Wondering what’s in store for web data in 2023 and beyond? Read this blog post to find out what we expect to happen with web data soon. Hints: ChatGPT and annotations.

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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 Web is immensely more complex than it is in the open web....

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The Danger of Fake Reviews

How to Spot Fake Reviews in Time for the Holidays Black Friday is here, and as the biggest shopping day of the year, it means a lot of people will be on...

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Calling all (almost) Kimono Labs Developers to Migrate to Webz.io

Kimono Labs made an announcement today that it has been acquired by Palantir. Unfortunately Kimono Labs users will only have two weeks to migrate to a different service because the team will...

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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 and normalize the publication date of any online blog or news post....

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To crawl or not to crawl, that is the question

In order to write an efficient crawler, you must be smart about the content you download. When your crawler downloads an HTML page it uses bandwidth, memory and CPU, not only its...

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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 mirror/download websites. Today I want to share with you a very simple...

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Tiny basic multi-threaded web crawler in Python

If you need a simple web crawler that will scour the web for a while to download random site’s content – this code is for you. Usage: [crayon-67434e4d2c3f8649168690/] Where https://cnn.com is your seed site. It could...

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How we quadrupled the performance of Elasticsearch

Well, that’s a misleading title. We actually quadrupled the performance of our brand monitoring alert system that uses Elasticsearch’s Percolator, but that would have been a much longer title. Some background Buzzilla...

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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 it was crawled, getting the relevant posts is essential. I would like...

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Webz.io Tips & Tricks: Content Marketing & SEO

I would like to share with you 2 simple tips about how to leverage Webz.io to promote your website, product or service organically.