OpenCorporates – Open Database Of The Corporate World

Re:OpenCorporates – Open Database Of The Corporate World by tahssa on Monday December 28, 2015 @09:04PM (#10804733)

I attempted to find a company I know and 6 searches later I still couldn't find it. The first two attempts I had part of the name wrong, I.e. x resources instead of x energy, but I corrected that, continued, and still couldn't find it even though it came back with dozens of results.

Google got it on the first attempt even using the wrong name.

Too much data with poor search algorithms can be worse than a phonebook.

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Re:OpenCorporates – Open Database Of The Corporate World by etep on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @12:13AM (#10805338)

I tried the same thing and never did get the company I was looking for, mine was Intel.

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Re:OpenCorporates – Open Database Of The Corporate World by herah on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @07:18AM (#10806361)

I also work at OpenCorporates and work alongside NGOs and investigators on stories as the data we have can be essential in tracking chains of corporate control and expose links to corruption. We have a community of botwriters and researchers who specifically go after datasets that are hard to find/scrape but are valuable e.g. financial licenses, businesses licenses etc. We're on slack if you're interested to see what's happening in our community: http://slack.opencorporates.com/

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Re:OpenCorporates – Open Database Of The Corporate World by rpedela on Monday December 28, 2015 @09:19PM (#10804777)

Just curious, what name did you test?

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Re:OpenCorporates – Open Database Of The Corporate World by tahssa on Monday December 28, 2015 @09:21PM (#10804782)

Devon

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