Web-scraping software has been around for a long time, but in recent years its function has changed. Originally web-scraping software was for information that was not meant to be read by people but by other computers and legacy systems. Today, web-scraping software is driven by the need for massive amounts of data in large-scale scientific research or in marketing strategy. It has, in the past, been considered a crude form of data gathering, but with the rise of Google and new more powerful and intelligent algorithms, web-scraping software has become key in the running of many businesses where not only quanity of data is important, but also quality.
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