Should you buy crawled web data or build your own solution?

Should you buy crawled web data or build your own solution?

In a technologically driven environment, the temptation to develop a proprietary web crawling solution is virtually irresistible. Our latest report examines the true cost of computing and software development resources required to deliver a data […]

Top 10 Big Data Stories Leading the Conversation

Top 10 Big Data Stories Leading the Conversation

In the right hands, crawled web data can tell an amazing story. We were interested in the top 10 news stories – sorted by social shares on Facebook and LinkedIn. So we set up a […]

The Race to Achieve 100% Coverage of the Web

The Race to Achieve 100% Coverage of the Web

In our new report, we deconstruct the all-too-familiar race to achieve 100% coverage of the web. Data acquisition efforts usually rely on one of three approaches – build an internal web crawling […]

Guide to Structured Web Data Consumption: How to get instant access to news, blogs, and online discussions

Guide to Structured Web Data Consumption: How to get instant access to news, blogs, and online discussions

The full guide to structured web data consumption

5 Ways to Measure the Impact of Crawled Web Data on Your Business

5 Ways to Measure the Impact of Crawled Web Data on Your Business

The analysis you provide is only as good as the raw data you start with. Although data from the open web is often perceived as a commodity, not all crawled data is […]

How to Keep Your Restaurant Sentiment Analysis Well-Fed

How to Keep Your Restaurant Sentiment Analysis Well-Fed

When the team from London-based data analysis service GetSentiment developed a bleeding-edge system to measure the emotional baggage found in free text, they were missing just one thing: relevant data. “We were […]

Why Extracting Content From The Open Web Is Better than Surveys for Research

Why Extracting Content From The Open Web Is Better than Surveys for Research

What’s the best way to find out how people feel about a given topic? Simply ask them, right? Well, at least that’s what we’ve been led to believe. Standard polling practice tells […]

Webz.io helps Observify expand their coverage and add a new angle to their already rich offering.

Webz.io helps Observify expand their coverage and add a new angle to their already rich offering.

We had a the pleasure of speaking to Karl from Observify to understand a bit more about them but also why and how they use Webz.io A bit about Observify “Observify is […]

100% Coverage of the Web

100% Coverage of the Web

Achieving 100% coverage is the Holy Grail. To be able to tap into the World Wide Web is something that anyone dealing with data would like to have, but is far FAR […]

How to Create a Custom RSS Feed for Content Monitoring

How to Create a Custom RSS Feed for Content Monitoring

Imagine that you had the ability to track what’s being said, felt and published about a given topic, industry or brand. Whether you’re in marketing, sales, search engine optimization, management or just […]