I want to share with you an unfortunate truth: All data is biased. Here at Webhose, we’ve written about this at length in our posts that explained how surveys are biased and the danger of fake reviews. News headlines throughout 2018 were full of examples of disinformation, fake news and the questioning of its impact
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The reason I started Webhose.io is because I experienced the difficulties in collecting web data at scale when I worked on a previous project named PRTrack.it. At PRTrack.it we wanted to create a simple solution that will monitor how well your press release performed. We worked hard on the UX/UI but when it came to
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The Year in Review at Webhose What a year we’ve had at Webhose! With your ongoing feedback we’ve been able to develop offerings that better serve you. As we stop to catch our breath before the year ends, we wanted to review how much was achieved in such a short time. And we thought the
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One of the first popular sites to ever offer RSS, Rich Site Summary (or Really Simple Syndication) was the New York Times in early 2002. These feeds brought the advantage of learning about the latest news or trends from a variety of sources at once, without being obligated to subscribe, see ads, or opt-in to
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Today we’re very excited to announce the latest milestone in our journey to make structured web data easily accessible to every organization, developer and researcher: the Online News Archive has now been officially launched! TL;DR version: it’s a massive database of online news articles in structured format collected from thousands of sources in over
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After a few long nights and some very tired developers, we’re proud to introduce the Broadcast Data Feed: transcribed, structured, and machine-readable television and radio programming from 1091 US TV stations, 21 Canadian TV stations, 83 Spanish-US TV Stations and 356 Radio Stations. This new product line is available and ready for you to use,
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Monitoring mass media has come a long way since the days of the press-cutting agency. The bulk of today’s news is published online, while modern technology lets us store, index and query massive amounts of textual data in milliseconds. Digitization presents clear advantages for consumers, who can now read or watch the news from the
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Regardless of your political opinion, fake news has dominated the conversation since the 2016 US presidential election. The crux of the problem is that the very definition of what qualifies as fake news is in dispute. Still, most of us would like to know if the news story we’re reading reflects actual events – or
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In the right hands, crawled web data can tell an amazing story. We were interested in the top 10 news stories – sorted by social shares on Facebook and LinkedIn. So we set up a simple news API request. We were looking for the stories published over the past 30 days returned by an exact match query for the term “big data”. Here
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Well that’s the holy grail. To be able to tap into World Wide Web as a whole is something that anyone dealing with data would like to have, but is far FAR from achieving (except maybe for the NSA, we don’t know). The idea behind Webhose.io is that when you need data from the web,
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“Originality is the art of remembering something but forgetting where you heard it.” Case in point, I don’t remember where I heard that. Nonetheless, it’s absolutely true, especially when it comes to running an online business. Why? Because in today’s online marketplace, sales, brand management, and genuine engagement are all practices that shouldn’t begin with
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I’m very happy to let you know about the launch of our extended access to 30-days of historical data from Webhose.io, which is available to our paying customers immediately. No waiting list. With the 30 days data access, Webhose.io customers don’t have to worry about missing posts in the realtime stream since they can now
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Our crawlers download millions of posts a day from millions of sources. Sometimes you may want to only sift through news or blog posts that had some kind of social impact. To provide you with this capability, we are introducing a new score we call the “Performance Score”.
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