10.18.2006
Spy on Your Competition with SpyFu
Did you ever wonder who pays more for ads online MySpace or Classmates.com? Turns out, it is Classmates by a landslide, but what about your competitors?... more

04.25.2006
Search Engine Intelligence
...We discovered that we ranked seventh on the search phrase ‘Playboy Website'. We had no idea!... more
http://www.googspy.com

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SpyFu.com will offer nearly 20x more raw data than previously available on Googspy, with a ton of new features including Adword price and Domain spending estimates. Much of SpyFu.com will still be 100% free and the interface will be similar to GoogSpy. That said, some new features will only be available to paid subscribers.

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Ever wonder which keywords your competitors using in their online advertising campaigns? When we started to get serious about advertising we wondered the same thing. Using our Web Scraper Plus software, we set out on an experiment to get some answers. We fed in a basic list of keyword searches (Web Scraping, Love, God, and Sex) to Google and noted the ads, ad placement, and organic search results returned for each...

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Velocityscape is a privately held software and services company which focuses solely on products and solutions that move data between the web and databases or spreadsheets. Velocityscape was founded in 1999 by Michael J. Roberts and is based in Phoenix, Arizona...

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Velocityscape launched Googspy.com in April of 2005 as an experiment focused on answering the question "What ads to my competitors buy on Google?". In a matter of hours, news of Googspy was spreading like wildfire across the Search blogs and forums. Within a few days Googspy was mentioned in the Wall Street Journal! Clearly, there was a tremendous demand for online competitive intelligence.

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Googspy.com was a revolutionary online advertising research tool that finds its roots in Velocityscape’s own need for Google Adword research. From the day it went online in April 2005, Googspy was an instant success and to everyone’s amazment, it was offered at no charge! Since the launch, we received feedback from all kinds of marketing professionals and biggest wants were more raw data, more keyword statistics, and more updates. This feedback led to our release of SpyFu.com.

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Since being founded in 1999, Velocityscape has been focused solely on products and solutions that move data between the web and databases or spreadsheets. Our core product, Web Scraper Plus+ automates the extraction of information from web pages into a database. Consulting for data extractions projects is our core service offering and this requires that we maintain a very high proficiency in data manipulation and data cleansing.

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