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,
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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
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
Super Bowl 50 – Sentiment analysis of #SuperBowlSunday
We decided to take a look at Twitter for the Super Bowl 50 between the Panthers and the Broncos and monitor the hashtag #SuperBowlSunday, before
Mint.com and Quicken Data Scraping blocked by Bank websites
Business Insider covered and interesting story from the Wall Street Journal about how large Banks such as Wells Fargo have made it impossible for web
CAPTCHAs and the death of the open Internet
Increasingly and somewhat anecdotally we see an increase in the use of captcha in mundane activities that are best automated. A couple of recent examples