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What is website classification? Website classification is a process that takes a website, and translate it into one or two categories which best describes the website. For example CNN is news, Facebook is social networks. Each industry has a different usage for website classification: Parental control – Blocking age inappropriate websites and/or alerting the parent. […]

URL Categorization is a service that allows you do get the classification of a Domain or URL, we wrote extensively on the difference between Domain Classification and URL Classification. How to communicate with a URL Categorization service There are two main methods, one is to use URL Categorization API, as seen in the next picture: […]

I remember the site urlblacklist.com, it was a good resource for proxy owners, security managers, and application developers to test their idea before spending money on URL Classification services from a commercial vendor. For some users this free solution was good enough to use even after the proof of concept, and for some users it […]

When speaking with potential client’s about URL Classification, one the questions I ask is if they want to use Domain level classification or URL level classification. So what’s the difference? In Domain level URL Classification, the site is classified as a whole, which means CNN and Wikipedia are classified at the main level, so CNN […]