Diffbot

Diffbot is a developer of machine learning and computer vision

algorithms and public APIs for extracting data from web pages /
Diffbot
web scraping to create a knowledge base.

The company has gained interest from its application of computer

vision technology to web pages, wherein it visually parses a web Type Private company
page for important elements and returns them in a structured Industry Internet
format.[1] In 2015 Diffbot announced it was working on its
Founder Mike Tung
version of an automated "Knowledge Graph" by crawling the
web and using its automatic web page extraction to build a large Headquarters Menlo Park,
database of structured web data.[2] In 2019 Diffbot released their California, U.S.
Knowledge Graph which has since grown to include over 2 Area served Worldwide
billion entities (corporations, people, articles, products, Key people Mike Tung (CEO)
discussions, and more), and 10 trillion "facts."
Services Web APIs,
The company's products allow software developers to analyze Enterprise Search,
web home pages and article pages,[3] and extract the "important Web Scraping, Web
information" while ignoring elements deemed not core to the Crawling
primary content.[4] Website www.diffbot.com (htt
ps://www.diffbot.co
In August 2012 the company released its Page Classifier API, m/)
which automatically categorizes web pages into specific "page
types".[5] As part of this, Diffbot analyzed 750,000 web pages shared on the social media service Twitter
and revealed that photos, followed by articles and videos, are the predominant web media shared on the
social network.[6]

In September 2020 the company released a Natural Language Processing API for automatically building
Knowledge Graphs from text.[7]

The company raised $2 million in funding in May 2012 from investors including Andy Bechtolsheim and
Sky Dayton.[8]

Diffbot's customers include Adobe, AOL, Cisco, DuckDuckGo, eBay, Instapaper, Microsoft, Onswipe and
Springpad.[4][5][9]

See also
GPT-3

References
1. "Diffbot Lets Developers Navigate Code the Way Our Eyes See the World" (https://thenextw
eb.com/apps/2011/08/25/diffbot-lets-developers-navigate-code-the-way-our-eyes-see-the-w
orld/). TheNextWeb. August 25, 2011. Retrieved April 21, 2013.
 2. "Startup Unleashes Its Clone of Google's 'Knowledge Graph' " (https://www.wired.com/2015/
06/startup-shares-google-knowledge-graph-clone-everyone/). Wired. June 4, 2015.
Retrieved June 15, 2015.
3. "Diffbot Helps Apps Read the Web Like Humans" (http://gigaom.com/2011/08/25/diffbot-help
s-apps-read-the-web-like-humans/). GigaOm. August 25, 2011. Retrieved March 14, 2013.
4. "Investors Back Diffbot's Visual Learning Robot for Web Content" (https://blogs.wsj.com/vent
urecapital/2012/05/31/investors-back-diffbots-visual-learning-robot-for-web-content). The
Wall Street Journal. May 31, 2012. Retrieved March 14, 2013.
5. "DiffBot's new API brilliantly reveals what's hiding behind any link" (https://venturebeat.com/
2012/08/16/diffbot-api-links). August 16, 2012. Retrieved March 14, 2013.
6. "Twitter: A Day in the Life" (http://mashable.com/2012/08/16/twitter-day-in-the-life-infographi
c/). Mashable. August 16, 2012. Retrieved March 14, 2013.
7. "New AI Tool Maps the Families of the Bible, A Song of Ice and Fire" (https://www.datanami.c
om/2020/09/17/new-ai-tool-maps-the-families-of-the-bible-a-song-of-ice-and-fire/).
Datanami. 2020-09-17. Retrieved 2022-06-08.
8. "Diffbot raises $2 million to help apps understand the open, unstructured web" (https://www.t
heverge.com/2012/5/31/3054444/diffbot-raises-2-million-apps-open-web). TheVerge. May
31, 2012. Retrieved March 14, 2013.
9. "Diffbot Bests Google's Knowledge Graph To Feed The Need For Structured Data" (https://w
ww.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2015/06/04/diffbot-bests-googles-knowledge-graph-to-f
eed-the-need-for-structured-data/). Forbes. June 4, 2015. Retrieved June 15, 2015.

External links
Official website (http://diffbot.com)
Knowledge Graph (https://www.hyro.ai/glossary/knowledge-graph)

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