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Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about Data Surfer and how we handle your data
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Will Data Surfer find leads for me?
Yes! Data Surfer can both find new leads and enrich your existing ones. Our lead finder feature uses realtime Search and Maps services to discover relevant businesses based on your search terms and location preferences. Once leads are found or imported, our AI-powered enrichment analyzes their websites to provide detailed intelligence for more accurate targeting and prioritization.
How does Data Surfer find information?
Data Surfer uses a combination of advanced AI models to intelligently navigate websites whilst cleaning out the noise, understanding context of your business, and what's important to you to follow relevant links and find the information you need. Data Surfer can analyze everything from team pages to news articles, without any prior understanding of the site's content structure.
What kind of information can Data Surfer find?
Data Surfer can find a wide range of business intelligence including services offered, team members, contact details, technology stack, business initiatives, challenges, recent changes, and growth signals. The specific information gathered can be customized to your needs.
What parts of a company website does Data Surfer analyze?
Data Surfer thoroughly examines company websites to extract relevant business intelligence. It navigates through various sections including: main pages and subpages, press release sections, news areas, product and service pages, blog content, team and about pages, and subdomains that are part of the company website. The system intelligently follows links within the company's domain to build a comprehensive understanding while staying focused on official company content.
What's the difference between Data Surfer and a basic web scraper?
Unlike basic web scrapers that indiscriminately collect data without context, Data Surfer uses advanced AI to understand the meaning and relevance of content it discovers. It can: recognize concepts and topics even when exact keywords aren't present, understand the contextual importance of information based on where it appears on the website, follow logical paths through websites as a human researcher would, make intelligent decisions about which pages are likely to contain valuable information, and provide confidence levels and explanations for its findings. This intelligence means you get actionable insights, not just raw data that requires further analysis.