How many products does Amazon sell – August 2016
UPDATE: December 2016 Amazon has about 368,876,590 products as of Dec 1, 2016. Read Updated Report Amazon sells 391,337,440 products in the US Highlights 58,407,108
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Number of products sold on the Amazon “Made on Kickstarter” store
Amazon launched a “Made on Kickstarter” storefront and it was covered widely on most tech mags like Techcrunch, Verge, Mashable etc. The storefront is available
How do startups get their data?
Startups and Data Everybody’s gotta start somewhere – so goes the saying. Startups especially start from nothing. In today’s world full of data, the question
Amazon India trounces Flipkart First with 900K Prime products
The big news of the day – “Amazon launched Amazon Prime in India“. How exciting ! We decided to go beyond the PR and hype
Dear fake users – who does Google think you are?
Summary Google Analytics is rife with Fake or Ghost referrers, this post takes a look at how Google itself classifies these users by Age, Sex,
A Dash button for everything – Amazon has 163 dash buttons now
Amazon has ventured into some areas like the Dash buttons or the Echo which have a niche use. The Dash buttons let you replenish items
Amazon India vs Flipkart vs SnapDeal
The India eCommerce market is going through a lot of growth. A largely untapped market due to the lack of infrastructure – logistics, electronic payments,
An API for every site using web scraping
There is a lot of content available on the millions of websites on the Internet, and all of them involve some amount of programming to
CHART: Count of Products in Amazon.com for Top 10 categories – May 2016
The chart and tables below show the number of products in the Top 10 categories sold by Amazon.com. The previous data can be found here.
XPaths and their relevance in Web Scraping
XPath (XML Path Language) is a syntax for defining parts of an XML document. We will explain the relevance of Xpath in web scraping. XPath
Books sold by language on Amazon
We decided to have a look at Amazon.com books and see if it discriminates (ok maybe that is a harsh word) by language. They,
Demise of Kimono Labs and the fate of their users
We have written about the differences between a free service and a paid web scraping service previously. Unfortunately, the 125,000 claimed “users” of Kimono Labs