Welcome to our first Throwback Thursday blog posting – in honor of Throwback Thursday, we wanted to turn back time by giving you a quick recap of the history of search and where BrightPlanet’s technology fits in with that history. In this blog posting we will cover: How search first started and evolved How BrightPlanet’s […]
Being in the business of Deep Web harvesting, we find ourselves answering the same questions regularly. Online search is such a part of our daily lives; Kleenex is to facial tissue as Google is to search. Google has become synonymous with search in many people’s minds. However, what Google does and what Deep Web harvesting […]
The World Wide Web provides law enforcement agencies an incredible opportunity to legally collect information. This information can include content about illegal activities and threats to public safety that are very relevant to law enforcement and other public safety agencies. Our BlueJay service is a Twitter crime scanner for law enforcement, but often agencies want […]
We are participating in a webinar sponsored by TeleStrategies’ ISS World for law enforcement professionals on Wednesday, July 31, at 1 p.m. Eastern on Best Practices for Scanning the Twitter Firehose.
A recent Boston Herald article reported that Major League Baseball (MLB) has asked all clubs to obtain Support Anti-Terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies (SAFETY) Act certification from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In this post we’ll talk about the SAFETY Act and how Twitter can be leveraged with a tool to help sports venues […]
Users send 400 million tweets every day. Ranked as the 10th most popular site in the world by Alexa rank in January 2013, Twitter boasts 500 million registered users. The only way to access 100% of those tweets in real-time is through the Twitter “Firehose.” The other option for accessing tweets is using one of Twitter’s direct […]
There are many web monitoring and listening platforms, both free and commercial options, available online. The majority of these companies advertise their ability to monitor and scour hundreds of thousands of sources simultaneously. These turnkey solutions allow the user to submit lists of keywords and the platform returns thousands of hits from blogs, message boards, social […]
Our last post was on why we’re different than Google search and in this post we want to discuss why our Deep Web alerts are different than Google Alerts. Learn what alerts we can set up, how they’re different than a Google Alert, and examples of how BrightPlanet’s Deep Web alerts can be used. Page […]
When demoing our products, we often spend a lot of time answering questions about how BrightPlanet’s solutions are different than a regular Google search. Potential users often want BrightPlanet to search a certain keyword for them across the entire web. We don’t do that. Discover what we do, why it’s different than a Google search, […]
May 7, 2013 – Sioux Falls, S.D. – BrightPlanet Corporation announced today that it was recently named as one of just five selected companies in the “Cool Vendors in Information Infrastructure and Big Data 2013”1 by Gartner, Inc., the leading industry analyst firm. The report recognizes emerging vendors bringing novel approaches to addressing information management […]