Classifieds is going digital; but there's a lot happening behind the scenes to accomplish the digitization. This deck discusses how technology facilitates the data acquisition part when running a digital classifieds engine.
Before the digital revolution, Community Classifieds were mere collection of few categorized advertisements, needing to be traversed through the whole chunk to find something relevant.
With high-paced digital advancements, classifieds has got completely revolutionized opening wide range of business opportunities in this field affecting millions of users.
Major requirements of Digital Classifieds:Scrape maximum number of categories from webIndex listings to support better search-ability using keywords, tags, etc. Perform regular content acquisition Reach out to a wider network of people Get Real Time updates about products, services, etc. Create a Global impact in the market, by covering more and more geographic regions
PromptCloud’s Big Data Solution gives following services for Digital Classified Market: 1) Web Scraping of classified content, and provide structured data feeds in form of XML, CSV or Excel 2) Hosted Indexing of feeds, to enable search for popular keywords3) PromptCloud’s Geo-Intelligence API helps to get feeds from a particular countries and regions4) Social Media feeds to monitor your brand and popularity