Archive for March, 2005

How does Market Sentinel monitor any website?

March 31st, 2005 — Mark

Our customers ask us to monitor particular pages. It could be a blog, a message board … it could the product page of a rival company … it could be a search page on Google or another search engine. We can produce RSS feeds from anything. Then we ping the site and [...]

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Monitoring web pages – how we got started

March 31st, 2005 — Mark

Market Sentinel came into this world by accident when a large technology company rang us up in August 2004. We had an algorithm called myrss.com which simply stripped out content from a standard HTML page and turned it into an RSS feed.
These guys were interested in tracking what CIO’s were saying about their [...]

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