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Read our whitepaper that outlines the results of a US & UK decision maker survey on the usage of alternative data and web scraping in their daily operations

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Marketplace SEO: How to Improve Your SERP Rankings with Data

The success of your SEO strategy will likely depend entirely on how accurately you follow a specific marketplace’s regulations and in what ways you stand out.

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Data Quality Metrics You Should Track and Measure

Learn more about how to effectively track and measure data quality with the help of this detailed blog post

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Real-Time Online Media Monitoring Infrastructure

This white paper will walk you through the critical stages of the online media monitoring process.

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The primary focus of the white paper is to provide an action chain for a competitor intelligence system, from data collection to parsing, with various tips, guidelines, and explanations of the most critical processes.

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Hard Data vs. Soft Data: The Difference

While being so different, hard and soft data can complement one another in significant ways when it comes to business data analysis and forecasting. Read this blog post to learn more.

Maryia Stsiopkina

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Free White Paper: Alternative Data Unlocks Key Decisions in the UK And US Finance Industries

Oxylabs, in cooperation with Censuswide, has surveyed over 1000 senior decision makers in the finance industry. Find out how alternative data and web scraping has changed finance.

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Guarding Affiliate Compliance With Oxylabs’ Solutions

Rightlander relies on Oxylabs' SERP Scraper API and proxies to stay the leading affiliate compliance services company. Read this blog post to learn more!

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Using Data for Competitive Advantage

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Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) monitoring is an essential process for any brand, supplier or manufacturer that works with e-commerce marketplaces. Tracking MAP policy compliance plays an important role ensuring fair competition across different channels and protecting your brand’s reputation.

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Meeting the Most Ambitious SEO Needs With Fresh Data

Morningscore partners with Oxylabs, a leading publicly available data gathering solutions provider, and use their specialised tool – SERP Scraper API! Find out more about this partnership.

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Best Python Libraries for Web Scraping

This white paper will go through four most popular Python libraries and the basics on how to get started in web scraping.

Yelyzaveta Nechytailo

2022-01-12

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AI/ML in 2022: More Real-world Deployments, Focus on AI Ethics and Blockchain Hopes

Oxylabs' AI/ML Advisory Board members make their predictions on what's in store for artificial intelligence and machine learning in 2022.

Adomas Sulcas

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E-Commerce Keyword Research: Data Collection Challenges and Solutions

E-commerce keyword research is at the core of every successful e-commerce business. Find out what data collection challenges you may face and how to overcome them.

Iveta Vistorskyte

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What Is Data Mining?

Data mining is an advanced analysis of collected datasets. Learn more about data mining techniques, specifics, and benefits

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What Is Affiliate Fraud and How to Prevent It?

In this blog post, we’ll discuss affiliate fraud and the most common methods fraudsters use. We’ll also explain how to identify fraud and tips for not falling victim to malicious actors.

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What Is Sentiment Analysis?

In this article, you will learn what sentiment analysis is, how it can benefit market research and brand monitoring, and how it works.

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What Is Data Normalization?

Data normalization is one of the best practices of efficient data management. Find out more about database normalization and how you can benefit from normalizing data in this article.

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News Scraping: Everything You Need to Know

This article discusses everything you need to know about news scraping, including the benefits and use cases of news scraping as well as how you can use Python to create an article scraper.

Iveta Vistorskyte

2021-10-18

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Free White Paper: E-commerce Drives ROI Upwards with Alternative Data

Find out how UK ecommerce and retail companies are changing industry practices with alternative data. Dig through the data Oxylabs and Censuswide have collected to see how alternative data has changed ecommerce.

Adomas Sulcas

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Data Wrangling: What Is It and Why Is It Important?

This article discusses what data wrangling is, the key steps of data wrangling, and why it’s crucial for businesses.

Iveta Vistorskyte

2021-09-23

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What is Firmographic Data? Everything You Need to Know

Firmographic data can provide valuable insight for business-to-business marketers. Read this article to learn what benefits it brings and how it can be acquired.

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Data-Driven Marketing: How Big Data Helps Make Business Decisions

This article discusses how big data is changing marketing and the process of decision-making. Learn what data-driven marketing is and its main benefits and use cases.

Maryia Stsiopkina

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The Role of Web Scraping in Data-Driven Investing

Data gathering has become an integral part of most, if not all, modern businesses. The degree of importance may vary from business to business, yet in areas such as data-driven investing, it’s the core foundation upon which the entire industry is built.

Iveta Vistorskyte

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This article will discuss different types of financial data, their use cases, and financial data management and analysis tools.

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Free White Paper: Web Scraping in the Travel Industry: Main Challenges and Use Cases

Download this free white paper and get all the information on how you can benefit from web scraping in the travel industry and deal with challenges when gathering the required public data.

Iveta Vistorskyte

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Free White Paper: How to Build a Successful Competitive Intelligence Process?

Download our free white paper and get all the information on competitive intelligence and how to solve the main issues that may arise when building competitive intelligence process in your organization.

Iveta Vistorskyte

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The Driving Force of Search Engine Ad Intelligence

This article is intended to offer a 360-degree view of search engine ad intelligence: what it is and how to collect it using proxies alongside in-house web scrapers or ready-to-use tools.

Iveta Vistorskyte

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Sources of Competitive Intelligence and Best Practices

If you’re interested in learning everything about competitive intelligence, this article is for you. Read this article to understand what competitive intelligence is and learn more about competitive intelligence sources, its challenges, and best practices.

Iveta Vistorskyte

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Free White Paper: Why Is Alternative Data Playing an Increasingly Larger Role in Financial Markets

Read why collecting alternative data is essential for applications in financial markets. Find out the main challenges while scraping alternative data and learn the solutions that can help make the best out of alternative data in the financial industry.

Monika Maslauskaite

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Free White Paper: Alternative Data Brings Opportunities to The Financial Sector

Read how we, in cooperation with Censuswide, have surveyed senior data decision makers in the UK finance sector! Get all the details they shared on how alternative data is being used in their industry.

Adomas Sulcas

2021-06-29

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Pricing Intelligence: Focus on Data-Driven Decision Making

If you are interested in starting to make data-driven decisions, this white paper is for you! Learn everything about pricing intelligence and how third-party data gathering solutions help you forget web scraping challenges.

Iveta Vistorskyte

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Building Price Scraping Tools: Picking the Best Proxies

What are price scrapers? Why is it essential for e-commerce businesses, and what tools should they be using? Find all about it in our new article.

Gabija Fatenaite

2021-05-13

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What Is Online Reputation Management?

What is online reputation management? Why is it beneficial? What are the main challenges of monitoring it? Read the article and find out more.

Vejune Tamuliunaite

2021-03-29

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Under the Hood of Anti-Counterfeiting Technology

Counterfeiting is a big issue around the world. Anti-counterfeiting technologies have to be well advanced to be capable of finding counterfeit goods online, anywhere in the world. Web scraping tools and proxies are an inseparable part of modern anti-counterfeiting solutions.

Adelina Kiskyte

2021-03-24

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Oxylabs Solutions Help Searchmetrics Provide Fresh Data

Searchmetrics provides tools and services that help companies improve their SEO and content marketing strategies. Big data is an integral part of their service. To ensure a steady and reliable data flow, Searchmetrics uses Oxylabs SERP Scraper API and Datacenter Proxies.

Adelina Kiskyte

2021-03-17

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Free White Paper: Guide to Threat Intelligence Data Acquisition

One of the cybersecurity practices that modern companies use to avoid potential dangers is threat intelligence. Learn how threat intelligence enables businesses to make faster and data-backed security decisions and be proactive in the fight against threat actors.

Iveta Vistorskyte

2021-03-05

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Free White Paper: Commercial Data as Alternative Data for Financial Industry

More and more data gets created every day, and asset management companies and hedge funds can leverage this data for analysis to reveal trends, patterns, and risks. However, traditional data has not been covering the needs of the competitive investment market. Meanwhile, alternative data enables investors to make better, informed predictions.

Adelina Kiskyte

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How Proxies Help Improve Ad Verification?

Did you know that proxies help advertisers check if their ads are displayed in the proper context and seen by the right audience? Read this article to learn everything about ad verification and the most suitable proxies for this process.

Iveta Vistorskyte

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Web Scraping Job Postings: Challenges and Best Solutions

No matter how you will be using job search aggregation data, data gathering requires good scraping solutions. In this blog post, we'll go over where to start, and which solutions work best.

Gabija Fatenaite

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