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Amazon sells about 368,876,590 products as of Dec 1, 2016 EDIT: January 2017 Update is available here The total number of products sold by Amazon is 368 million, but when you add up the product totals in various categories and subcategories the total ends up being 411,548,523 – almost 42.1 million more products than the […]
This is an open thread and the goal is to solicit comments on what the best web scraping service may look like. Please go ahead a type away and write down the ideas or requirements you think would define the best web scraping service or data scraping service. No ideas or comments are bad – […]
We publish a lot of data from around the web and people visit us from all around the world to read about the data and articles we publish. In this data bite we wanted to publish a map of where our visitors came from among the various countries in the world. We had visitors from […]
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 Books 91,774,413 in Electronics 37,983,555 products out of the 391 million are Prime shipping eligible products
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 at https://www.amazon.com/b?node=13514636011 Count of products in Top categories We decide to take a look at how many products Amazon has on launch day. Here is the breakdown for the top […]
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 is where do startups get their data? Let’s look at the sources of the data in the various stages of a startup. Development Phase At this stage a startup usually […]
The big news of the day – “Amazon launched Amazon Prime in India“. How exciting ! We decided to go beyond the PR and hype machine and look at the hard cold facts and data on what it means to the India eCommerce scene. Last month we had written a blog comparing the major e-commerce […]
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 from the Amazon store with the click of a button ! We decided to take a look at how many products you can order with their own exclusive Dash button […]
The India eCommerce market is going through a lot of growth. A largely untapped market due to the lack of infrastructure – logistics, electronic payments, shipping and cultural opposition to eCommerce has seen a huge uptick in acceptance and sales over the past few years. The large eCommerce players all publish various statistics on who […]
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. There has been approximately an increase of 100,000 products since last year and a decrease of 100,000 products since last month. Electronics 118,328,809 Cell Phones & Accessories 79,174,534 Home & […]
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, of course, don’t write these books – they just sell them. They are US headquartered and it is almost obvious that a majority of their books are probably written in […]
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 woke up to the rude realities of such a free web scraping service. Kimono Labs, got acquired by Palantir and gave their “beloved users” just 2 weeks to find an […]
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