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Data at Scale: The Google News API vs Webz.io’s News API
When you want to find a particular news article, your first thought is probably to Google it. From Altavista...
Early Detection of the Weibo Data Breach: A Case Study
Last month at the end of March, Sina Weibo publicly announced that it had suffered a data breach. As...
The Rise and Fall of Dark Web Marketplaces
Last year was a particularly tumultuous year for dark web marketplaces, with the successful shutdown of major dark web marketplaces...
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....
Imageboards: Monitoring the Hotbeds of Extremism and Radicalism
When two mass shooting attacks happened within hours of one another in the US last month, few might have guessed...
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...
How Does a Web Crawler Work?
With the advent of the digital age and its unprecedented source of data, both individuals and organizations alike wanted...
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...
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