How IOT can Boost Business Productivity
Each passing year is turning our world into a smarter and more connected place where every other thing communicates with one another. The Internet of Things is a technology with immense potential and it is expected to improve the efficiency and productivity of individuals as well as businesses. Part of it has to do with […]
Read MoreEmployee Spotlight: Rajesh
Exposing the wizards behind PromptCloud A great workforce is never complete without some diversity in the team. Rajesh Kumar, a Yahoo! alumnus, and programmer, makes Team PromptCloud rich with his profound knowledge of algorithms and coding skills. When he is not working on some super cool machine learning algorithm, he is an avid traveler and reader. […]
Read MoreWhat to expect from AI in the near Future – Jurgen Schmidhuber
Insights derived from big data is turning every company into consumer focussed, highly efficient and smarter entities. Everything looks good so far with the power of big data. Gathering and analysing data, understanding exactly what the customer wants and taking actions on it are some of the recent improvements that we owe to the technological […]
Read MoreHow Google Search Works- A Peek Inside The Web Crawling Giant
There are valid statistics which evince that, despite occupying the 65% market share in web searching ecosystem, Google crawler and indexes only the 16% of the entire world wide web. More specifically, every search query made on Google extracts 0.03% of the total information regarding that search query from the web. Admittedly, this information does […]
Read MoreTop Alternatives to Kimono Labs
Kimono Labs, a web scraping tool popular among the big data community, was shut down on February 29th, 2016. Users of this popular web scraping framework were left devastated and lost when the shutdown happened. Kimono Labs were being used by thousands of businesses to gather structured data from the web. Finding an alternative to […]
Read MoreCalculate your ROI on Web Scraping using our ROI Calculator
Staying atop the competition is a vital thing for the survival and growth of businesses these days. Ever since big data came into the picture, web scraping has become something businesses from every industry has to invest in. If your company is not in a technically advanced industry, web scraping could even be a nightmare […]
Read MoreCray’s new Supercomputer will make Big Data Analytics Lightning fast
We create as much data as we did from the beginning of civilization up until 2003 in just two days now. That would be around five Exabytes of information. The interesting stats were revealed by Google’s ex-CEO Eric Schmidt at a conference in 2010. This enormous growth of data shows no signs of slowing down. […]
Read MoreThe Web knows You Better than Your Closest Friend
We live in a world where technology has become an integral part of our daily activities. From waking up to the alarm on your smartphone to navigating to places with GPS assisted maps, technology has replaced almost everything that we used daily. Your smartphone is learning about your taste in music while you skip certain […]
Read MoreBenefits of Ruby over Python & R for Web Scraping
What are the Advantages of Ruby over Python & R for Web Scraping In this data-driven world, you need to be constantly vigilant, as information and key data for an organization keep changing all the while. If you get the right data at the right time in an efficient manner, you can stay ahead of […]
Read MoreHistory of Internet Archiving & Web Crawling – It’s Been 20 Years.
Within the last 1 second, while you were just starting to read this article, the internet has faced and changed many things on the world wide web. Within that 1 second, Google processed more than 45,000 search requests( That’s 3.5 billion per day and 1.2 trillion per year) and the web has seen 7000 tweets, […]
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