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 […]

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 […]

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 Crawled Data Gave One News Outlet the Edge in the Israeli Election

How Crawled Data Gave One News Outlet the Edge in the Israeli Election

In the spring of 2015, as Israel prepared for general elections, virtually all of the mainstream media analysts believed that change was in the air. Conventional wisdom at that time had it […]

The Top 10 Data & Analytics Articles of 2015

The Top 10 Data & Analytics Articles of 2015

The online world of data and analytics is fast approaching epic portions. It’s easy to get overwhelmed. Why? Because, not only has big data been big business in 2015 … but posts, […]

Social Media Analytics: Insights from Structured versus Unstructured Data

Social Media Analytics: Insights from Structured versus Unstructured Data

Let’s be honest … social media is a challenge. Not only is staying current, active, and “topped off” a chore, but crafting full-scale campaigns that contribute to your business’ and brand’s actual […]

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 […]

Building a Better Search Query

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 […]

Webz.io Tips & Tricks: Content Marketing & SEO

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.

Webz.io Tips & Tricks: Search for Reviews

Webz.io Tips & Tricks: Search for Reviews

Are you looking to focus your data search specifically on consumer generated reviews? Here are a couple of simple Webz.io tricks that might help: Limit your query to specific sites You can […]

Vertical Aggregation and Pattern Matching Crawlers

Vertical Aggregation and Pattern Matching Crawlers

After bashing various crawling techniques, I would like to describe the technique we use here, at Webz.io, a technology that was developed over the past 8 years. Our crawlers were developed with […]