Olle Vastbinder

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With the rising popularity of AI, you would almost forget that people are still doing most of the work in creating and maintaining a website. Programming, developing, designing, writing, creating, at the basis of all that there still are actual humans doing the work. To acknowledge the work those people put in, it is becoming increasingly popular to add a humans.txt file to a website. Although the concept of the humans.txt file has been around for some time, it is becoming increasingly popular to add this simple file to a website. But what is a humans.txt file, should you be using it, and how can you create one yourself? We’re covering all these questions in this blog. 

Why you should add a humans.txt file to your website – and how to make one

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Veronika Vilgis

As you browse websites and stream entertainment, it’s easy to forget about the massive physical infrastructure supporting our digital lives. But deep beneath the ocean and inside often nondescript buildings, an intricate network of fiber optic cables and servers are constantly working to transmit information around the globe. While the web may seem intangible, the hardware behind it requires an immense amount of resources and coordination to operate and maintain. In this blog post, we will delve into the strange world of data centers, exploring what they are, how they work, and why they have come under criticism for their environmental impact.

Guardians of the galaxy: Inside the data centers powering the web

Laura Keinänen

While live chat tools hold significant potential for enhancing customer support, sales and marketing efforts, its adoption remains relatively low. Which companies are competing for the relatively small user base, and what’s the most used live chat tool on the internet?

What’s the most used live chat tool on the web?

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Dataprovider.com

An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a unique code on the internet linked to a computer or computer network. This unique code grants the device to send and receive information.

Internet Basics #7: A beginner’s guide to IP addresses

If you have been around the internet for a while, you might remember RSS feeds, a tool to keep track of your favorite websites. RSS stands for Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication and refers to a text document that contains complete or summarized text from a website in addition to metadata, such as author name or publishing date.

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As you hopefully know, at Dataprovider.com we index the entire internet on a monthly basis and structure the data. In order to meaningfully structure data we frequently need to classify data, detect new data and assess data quality. For example, in order to determine to which country a website belongs, you generally need to take various sources of information into account such as the language used on the website, whether there is an address or where the website is hosted.

Data quality: a glimpse into our annotation team

Jasper van Thuijl

The world wide web is a massively valuable source of information, but also largely unorganized. How do we structure it?

Internet Basics #4: The difference between crawling and scraping

Hylke van der Veen

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a communication protocol that is used for communication between web servers (e.g., a website) and clients (e.g., your browser) on the internet.

Internet Basics #3: HTTP requests explained

Mathijs Baas

Headless CMSs are a relatively new technology, but they've already become popular. They're fast and easy to use, and they allow developers to build faster websites with more flexibility than traditional CMSs. In this post, we'll take a look at five of the most popular headless CMSs on the market today.

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