Salesforce Com, Inc.

Saleforce.com, Inc.

Eli Pogrebezky

Hanan Aharonof

Erez Agami

Baruch Shushi

Methods and systems are provided for automatically generating company profiles. Independent seed source services each crawl web pages to collect seeds from different web-based sources. A seed enricher module can then fetch additional information for each of the collected seeds from other different web-based sources and generate an enriched company seed for each collected seed. The enriched company seeds can then be automatically clustered into different clusters that each represent a particular company. A particular value for each attribute of each cluster that is determined to have the highest score can then be selected for inclusion in a corresponding company profile for that cluster.

Automated method and system for clustering enriched company seeds into a cluster and selecting best values for each attribute within the cluster to generate a company profile

Methods and systems are provided for automatically enriching collected seeds. Each website that is associated with each collected seed is processed via a web crawler that crawls a home webpage for the company associated with that collected seed to verify, based on similarity between company name and website name, that a website associated with that home page belongs to that company. When verification is successful, other webpages on the website are processed to fetch information using different extractor algorithms each being designed to fetch a specific attribute for that company. Search engine(s) and third-party APIs can also be used to collect additional company information that can be added to each collected seed. Each collected seed is then enriched by adding all of the additional company information to the original seed data.

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