alto california united states area served worldwide key people mike tung chief executive officer services web apis enterprise search website www.diffbot.com diffbot is a developer of machine learning and computer vision algorithms and public apis for extracting data from web pages web scraping . the company was founded in 2008 at stanford university and was the first company funded by startx then stanford student enterprises stanford s on campus venture capital fund . 1 the company has gained interest from its application of computer vision technology to web pages wherein it visually parses a web page for important elements and returns them in a structured format . 2 in 2015 diffbot announced it was working on its version of an automated knowledge graph by crawling the web and using its automatic web page extraction to build a large database of structured web data . 3 the company s products allow software developers to analyze web home pages and article pages 4 and extract the important information while ignoring elements deemed not core to the primary content . 5 in august 2012 the company released its page classifier api which automatically categorizes web pages into specific page types . 6 as part of this diffbot analyzed 750 000 web pages shared on the social media service twitter and revealed that photos followed by articles and videos are the predominant web media shared on the social network . 7 the company raised 2 million in funding in may 2012 from investors including andy bechtolsheim and sky dayton . 8 diffbot s customers include adobe aol cisco duckduckgo ebay instapaper microsoft onswipe and springpad . 5 6 9 references edit stanford s sse ventures funds diffbot . techcrunch . october 27 2008 . retrieved march 14 2013 . diffbot lets developers navigate code the way our eyes see the world . thenextweb . august 25 2011 . retrieved april 21 2013 . startup unleashes its clone of google s knowledge graph . wired . june 4 2015 . retrieved june 15 2015 . diffbot helps apps read the web like humans . gigaom . august 25 2011 . retrieved march 14 2013 . a b investors back diffbot s visual learning robot for web content . the wall street journal . may 31 2012 . retrieved march 14 2013 . a b diffbot s new api brilliantly reveals what s hiding behind any link . august 16 2012 . retrieved march 14 2013 . twitter a day in the life . august 16 2012 . retrieved march 14 2013 . diffbot raises 2 million to help apps understand the open unstructured web . theverge . may 31 2012 . retrieved march 14 2013 . diffbot bests google s knowledge graph to feed the need for structured data . forbes . june 4 2015 . retrieved june 15 2015 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title diffbot & oldid 692828153 categories applied machine learningweb scraping navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 28 november 2015 at 16 30 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view