Tag: SCRAPING

Scraping is a technique whereby a website or tool extracts select information from another website. For example, when you type a difficult word into Google and instantly see a definition for that word from some Web dictionary, that's because Google "scraped" that information from the dictionary. The term (and practice) has some negative connotations, because scrapers can be used to steal blog ...

Facebook just acquired something called Octazen Solutions, a company that most people (myself included) had never heard of until yesterday. Even Techcrunch's Mike Arrington had to ask "What did Facebook just buy?" Arrington and others talked to their industry sources, and the word around the web is that Octazen is an incredibly successful data-scraping operation, grabbing users' social graphs from ...