Radius has spent the past two and a half years crawling the Web to amass half a billion pieces of data on every small business in the United States.

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The problem I was trying to solve was a very specific problem of crawling the web, collecting all of these web pages and building indexes for them and maintaining them.

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The app essentially acts as a content hub for news, crawling the Web for top stories in key subjects and presenting them on the iPhone in summarized form, to fit a 4.5 inch screen.

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The search engine's Web-crawling spider now keeps an eye out for viruses and malware as it combs the Web, and shows users a warning page before allowing them to access malicious sites.

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Webaroo's computer scientists in Mumbai and New Delhi cranked out dozens of Web-crawling algorithms that decipher the necessary and truly informative stuff.

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Big Data moving outside the Consumer Web is like sea creatures crawling onto land.

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