When done right, web scraping is a powerful tool that can give businesses a competitive edge in today’s data-driven world.

Web scraping is a self-explanatory term. It means scraping data from the web using bots or specialized software. The bot sends requests to a specific website's server, gets a response, and ...

The advent of web scraping tools has revolutionized the gathering of trustworthy information, ensuring rapid and high-quality data collection.

Microsoft Excel allows you to copy Web data directly from a website using a Web query. This has the effect of giving you indirect access to the underlying database. You can pull the data directly ...

The company seems to have quietly begun “scraping” AI training data from information people are typing in to its desktop publishing program Word and its spreadsheet tool Excel.

The latest claims stem from an X post by @nixCraft, who accuses Microsoft of turning on an opt-out feature that automatically scrapes Word and Excel documents for AI training.

On Monday, the company announced that its Copilot AI is now available as an Excel function for Microsoft 365 insiders. That means you can add COPILOT to a formula and then use natural language in a ...