Category Archives: Email Extraction

Far too many companies that I consult with sit on loads of good customer data and do nothing with it. It’s really amazing…

In the past, gathering data from the web has been done manually and was a very difficult and time-consuming process. Now every business…

The question on the legality of one of the most popular data gathering tools definitely scrapes everyone’s attention. While many businesses use web data…

Understanding website crawling and how search engines crawl and index websites can be a confusing topic. Everyone does it a little bit differently,…

What Is a Web Crawler And Indexing? A web crawler (also known as a web spider, spider bot, web bot, or simply a…

Data scraping is not a new practice. It pre-dates the internet and existed even before data mining was much of a concept. From…

What Is Web Scraping? Web scraping is the process of extracting data from a website or another source of information. Instead of waiting…

Ever wondered how a search engine comes up with the exact results when you type something in its query box? After all, there…

A few months back I shared some of the ways our clients use website scraping to make competitive business decisions. I thought it…

Embracing Big Data may sound complicated but it need not be. Web scraping (aka. web crawling, web data extraction, web harvesting, screen scraping,…