Geva: Google is a 'closed garden' that blocks machine access to search
Ron Geva · 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR · Jul 31, 2018 · at 7:04
Ron Geva explains the market gap that prompted him to launch Webhose as an open structured data repository.
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“Google is a closed garden in that sense. They are excellent for it, Humans, but for machines that want to tap into their index, there's no way.”
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