How Crawling the Dark Web Can Help Curb Crime
You might think that you have full access to the internet, but the truth is your access is limited to the tip of an iceberg that the web really is. Search engines like google can only access the surface web, which makes up to about.03 percent of the whole web. The rest is called dark […]
Read MoreMark van Rijmenam Interview: Blockchain, Big Data, and More
Mark van Rijmenam is the Founder of Datafloq. He is a highly sought-after international public speaker, a Big Data strategist and author of the best-selling book Think Bigger – Developing a Successful Big Data Strategy for Your Business. He has been named as a global top 10 Big Data influencer. Currently, he is pursuing PhD at University […]
Read MoreBig Data Could Mean the Death of Subjectivity
We still live in a world where the majority of the decisions are made based on intuition and assumptions. As a race, humanity has been doing just fine with them, but why be fine when we can be better? Big data is being talked about by everyone these days. Advertisers, healthcare specialists, social scientists, and […]
Read MoreHow Apple Could’ve Used Web Crawling for Counterfeit Detection on Amazon
Could Apple have Identified Counterfeit Products by Web Crawling Amazon? Well, two of the biggest names in tech were recently in news for something they both weren’t happy about. Apple figured out that most of the chargers and lightning cables being sold on Amazon as genuine Apple accessories were in fact counterfeit products. The irony […]
Read MoreHow 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 MoreBest Web Scraping Tools Without Coding
Ever since the world wide web started growing in terms of data size and quality, businesses and data enthusiasts have been looking for methods to extract web data smoothly. Today, the best web scraping tools can acquire data from websites of your preference with ease and prompt. Some are meant for hobbyists, and some are […]
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 MoreBest Brand Monitoring Tools for Social Media
To claim success in today’s challenging market conditions, it is crucial to understand your prospects, customers, and industry. Using social media to promote and monitor your brand helps you discover new opportunities, uncover pain points, and take revenue-enhancing business decisions. Marketers are extensively using social media channels for this purpose. Result, many brand monitoring tools […]
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 to Monitor Website Changes using Google Docs- Part 2
How to Monitor Website Changes using Google Docs, RSS feeds have revolutionized the way we stay connected to the websites that matter to us. With feeds, you don’t have to keep checking each of your favourite sites separately as it brings all the news from these sites together at one place – your feed reader. […]
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