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Can you explain a bit more about how you actually get this data in real time? Are you scrapping these sites? Doing REST calls every x seconds. Or using the stre
by rksprst 16y ago
Can you explain a bit more about how you actually get this data in real time? Are you scrapping these sites? Doing REST calls every x seconds. Or using the streaming API for twitter?
Are you storing any of this data persistently? Can I do historic searches on any term, or just something that was indexed before?
Are you planning on adding any sentiment analysis? Or any other analytics on the data, assuming you are storing it.
Do you have an API or plan to support an API down the road. What's your monetization plan?
- whyleym 16y agoPresently we are using the various API's that are available for each of the services that we are linking into. We have some custom code which interogates this data and renders it to the user. In respect of historic searches and storing of the data, storing data is not something we are doing from day 1, however this is something we are certainly looking longer term. In terms of historic searches - again day 1, we search back as long as the various API's allow. Sentiment Analysis is something we looked at, however at the moment we wanted to keep things stripped back - that's not to say we may not offer this in future as an advanced search feature or even a feature that users can turn on/off. API's are on the agenda and these are actively being developed to allow others to call into the service. In terms of monetisation we are starting out with a contextual ad model (using Google Adsense to start) - which obviously hasn't worked out too bad for Google, however longer term we have some other ideas around this.