Source API: Expanding Your Coverage is Now Easier Than Ever

Source API: Expanding Your Coverage is Now Easier Than Ever

Expand your web data coverage is a task you should be able to perform anytime, anywhere. Meet our new Source API.

Data at Scale: The Google News API vs Webz.io’s News API

Data at Scale: The Google News API vs Webz.io’s News API

Learn about the difference between Google News API and Webz.io’s News API

A Look at News Trends from the COVID-19 Crisis

A Look at News Trends from the COVID-19 Crisis

See how MeaningCloud, a leader in text analytics, used Webz.io’s news API to analyze new Covid-19 trends.

How Web Data Can Help Predict Disease and a Rise in Prices

How Web Data Can Help Predict Disease and a Rise in Prices

Discover how web data can help predict a rise in prices.

A World of High-Quality Accessible News for All

A World of High-Quality Accessible News for All

Today if you rely on the internet for your news, you’re probably one of many who refuse to pay for it. And although that puts you in good company, it may also…

Gooooolll! Who Will Win The World Cup?

Gooooolll! Who Will Win The World Cup?

It’s been a month since the World Cup began and as usual, there were quite a few surprises in these matches. Seriously – did anyone see Germany getting bumped in the first…

How Alternative Data is Reshaping Finance

How Alternative Data is Reshaping Finance

According to a report recently featured on the Financial Times (PDF), hedge funds are expected to spend upwards of $600m on digital datasets this year, and up to $1bn by 2020. What’s…

What is the Omgili Bot, and why is it Crawling Your Website?

What is the Omgili Bot, and why is it Crawling Your Website?

Hi there. If you’re reading this, it’s probably because you’ve run into Omgilibot – perhaps in your web analytics or server logs (user agent: omgili/0.5 +https://omgili.com) – and turned to Google to…

3 Steps to Turn Webpages into Machine-Readable Data

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 of activity you can imagine. But when it comes to acquiring data…

What is DaaS, BDaaS, DBaaS? And Why Should You Care?

What is DaaS, BDaaS, DBaaS? And Why Should You Care?

The proliferation of data services has created a wide range of confusing buzzwords and acronyms – but at its core, DaaS is still a meaningful concept. We are living in the age…

Crawling the Dark Web to Detect the Next Market

Crawling the Dark Web to Detect the Next Market

Over the past few days, the internet has been abuzz with talk of the recent blows dealt by law enforcement to two major dark web “marketplaces”, AlphaBay and Hansa market; and the…

Can Data Science Deliver a Fake News Detector?

Can Data Science Deliver a Fake News Detector?

Regardless of your political opinion, fake news has dominated the conversation since the 2016 US presidential election. The crux of the problem is that the very definition of what qualifies as fake…