How to Use Web Crawling to Detect Fraud
Web crawling and scraping solutions can often be misconstrued in negative light, in absence of legal and technological information in this field. Contrary to unpopular belief, data scraping technique deploys automated bots to visit and extract data from the web, and is gaining significant importance. Web crawling, just like any other technology, can be used […]
Read MoreEmployee Spotlight – Selvam
Meet Selvam Vasu, the man behind the stage ensuring a smooth run for our servers and infrastructure. Being the devops-guru, he makes sure nothing ever breaks, and in case something does, Selvam is always ready to work his magic and fix it within no time. He believes that a web server is similar to the […]
Read MoreHow IoT Devices Caused one of the Biggest DDoS Attacks
Millions of surfers couldn’t access some of the most popular websites on the web on Friday, October 21st after hackers bombarded them with bogus traffic. DDoS attacks such as this one are not a new thing, but the extent of damage caused this time makes this one of the major DDoS attacks we’ve seen in […]
Read MoreHow Web Scraping Affects your Revenue Growth
Web scraping is an indispensable resource when it comes to gaining an edge in the competition with the help of business intelligence. As more and more data gets created on the world wide web, the complexity of extracting it intensifies. Web scraping is a technology that demands an extensive tech stack, high end resources and […]
Read MoreBot Detection Agencies- A FUD?
Bots aka web crawling spiders make up about 40% of the traffic on the internet. They traverse through pages on the web looking for data they were programmed to find. If you run a website, you would know that a good share of your traffic comes from bots. Using bots to find and fetch information […]
Read MoreGoogle Docs Web Scraping Method to Extract Data
This post is about DIY web scraping tools. If you are looking for a fully customizable web scraping solution, you can add your project on CrawlBoard. How to Extract Data from a Website Using Google Docs? We’ve been using Google docs for creating spreadsheets and other documents for all this while. Did you know that […]
Read MoreEmployee Spotlight – Sukesh
Exposing the wizards behind PromptCloud The only thing that Sukesh Chande lacks is a halo above his head to signify the happiness and positivity being spread by him in the office. Even while dealing with tight schedules and stressful client meetings, he seems unaffected and cheerful as a child. With a ready to help attitude and […]
Read MoreGoogle Launches AI Powered Messaging app Allo to take over WhatsApp
Google has been repeating failures over and over again when it comes to social networking. Orkut faded into oblivion and was eventually shut down and Google+ couldn’t make the impact they expected of it. Instant messaging is currently dominated by Facebook owned WhatsApp and has been doing it perfectly fine for us. Let’s learn about […]
Read MoreHollywood movies that depicted the power of big data
Movies can sometimes be ahead of their time. Hollywood has always been thinking out of the box and coming up with movies based on futuristic technology, think sci-fi thrillers. Big data and its applications are not futuristic anymore, we see its presence everywhere from the evolution of consumer-focused products to the healthcare industry. If you […]
Read MoreWeb Scraping and Data Collection Hacks
Web scraping is still a niche domain, with only the technically rich companies venturing into doing it in-house. The scope of collecting a huge volume of insightful data from the big data repository called world wide web is broad. Since we are into acquiring data from the internet using advanced crawling technologies, we handle terabytes […]
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