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Use case 1: Mining an
online CD shop's catalog
This project required collection
of the store's catalog items of
music CDs.
After a few days the customer
has received an excel
spreadsheet, with thousands of
records detailing each item's
album name and description,
artist's name, price and
availability.
Use case 2: Continuous
data mining of popular song data
from well-known radio station's
web sites.
This project required a more
complex setup, to mine each
station's 20 most popular song
list, once a week.
The information was inserted
once a week into the customer's
database, and was later
aggregated into this week's most
popular song list.
Use case 3: Company data
collection from known indexing
sites.
This project was executed for a
customer who wished to have a
list of potential customers for
his sales force. The project
required setup for data mining
of 3 leading Israeli company
indexing sites.
The information was delivered in
a spreadsheet, which included
the companies' names, web sites,
phone numbers, emails and
contact persons. After 2 months
the customer placed a new order,
for an international list of
hundreds of companies in his
area of business.
Use case 4: Complete
site's data mining
This complex project was one of
our longest ones. We were asked
by one of our customers to
retrieve all the sites listed on
various categories in one of the
world's leading index sites, and
later on to mine for email
addresses on the sites we've
discovered.
Once the work was done, the
customer received several data
files, each containing the list
of sites under a certain
category, their title and the
email addresses found in them.
Use case 5: Search engine
data mining
The project required collection
of the top sites that result
when searching for certain
keywords using one of the
world's leading search engines.
The customer has sent us a list
of 50 keywords to mine data
from. After a week, he received
from us an Excel spreadsheet
containing the details of all
the sites which appeared on the
first page of each keyword's
search results. Each row
contained the keyword, the
site's URL, name description and
position in the first page.
Use case 6: Cross-site
data mining and merging
In this project we have received
a list of hundreds of products
offered for sale on the
internet, and a list of sites
that sell them.
When we finished our work, the
customer received a list,
containing the product's name,
and its price in each web site.
The customer now presents the
price comparison data in his
website, and provides for each
product the cheapest site it can
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