Ask HN: Where do companies like outpan and semantics3 get their data from?

4 points by joshpen188 ↗ HN

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Outpan here,

We use a combination of polite massive-scale web crawling and user contribution. We had an in-house web crawler for years until recently when we released it as a stand-alone service.