Discover the hidden costs of in-house web scraping
The Real Value of Scraping Customer Reviews in the Business World
If you run a business, then you surely do your best to satisfy and please your customers, offering the best product or service. Customer reviews can help you understand if your efforts are bringing the wanted results. In today’s digital world, consumers will buy a product or service only after carefully analyzing the available reviews. […]
Read MoreHow to Leverage Store Location Data to Improve Conversion Rates
Store location data is in the absolute prime of its youth. According to a survey, as cited by eMarketer, location data is one of the topmost emerging areas that marketers earmarked budget towards in 2019, even ahead of technologies that tend to get more eyeballs, namely IoT and Artificial Intelligence. Store location data has become […]
Read MoreSocial Media Data Scraping Explained
Challenges and Benefits Social media data is grossly undermined and undervalued. Consumers are often their unabashed selves on these platforms. The data trail they leave behind is absolute gold. It also makes for great research on what the competition is doing. And wherever there is data, there is data scraping. There is so much you […]
Read MoreWhy is Real Time Data Scraping Worth Investing in 2021?
Web scraping scrapes every piece of information you require from the beautiful world of the internet and gives it to you in a format that you find most useful. Yes, it is that cool. And what kicks it up a notch is real-time scraping. Over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every single day. Data […]
Read MoreScraping Google Maps for Local Business Data and Lead Generation
Launched more than 15 years ago, Google Maps has evolved a lot and finds multiple uses besides how to get from point A to point B. Its most common offerings remain satellite imagery, aerial photographs, real-time traffic maps, and route planning via cars, bikes, public transport, and on foot. However, it is also heavily used […]
Read MoreHow to Leverage Product Feeds to Boost Sales?
As a retailer, don’t you want your product to automatically pop-up in the list of suggestions for search queries? Don’t you wish to gain higher visibility across multiple channels? How gratifying it would be to have complete control over the content displayed for your product! A well-built product feed can accomplish the same for you. […]
Read MoreSix Data Resources for Ecommerce Data Scraping
The power of data can’t be overestimated. From the instant messaging platform you use to the picture-sharing app you use; they are all seemingly innocuous and free. But are they really? The real cost of using any of these digital platforms is your personal data. Likewise, with the continuing rise of the e-commerce industry, the […]
Read MoreWhatsApp Privacy Policy Update and What it means for Data Privacy
WhatsApp used to be one of the most popular free-to-use and advertisement-free messaging services. But there has been a lot of hue-and-cry over its ever-changing and intrusive privacy policies. To understand the recent changes in WhatsApp’s privacy policy and why they were brought about, we need to understand how WhatsApp makes money. Instead of showing […]
Read MoreDebunking Ten Web Scraping Myths
Web scraping. Sounds extremely familiar, doesn’t it? There are countless articles written on the web scraping every day. But, how do you tell a great one from a good one? What should you really believe? Given that the world wide web is a goldmine of information, it gets easy to believe what is not entirely […]
Read MoreCan DIY Web Scraping Tools Serve Enterprises Effectively?
When it comes to scraping data from the web, different web scraping tool take different approaches. Automated Web Scraping often uses bots to extract data from multiple webpages of a website. Screen grabbing is another technique where the aim is to capture the specific pixels that are selected by the user, instead of delving into […]
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