Classify URLs and domains with precision and accuracy
Classifying large volumes of URLs is a complex challenge
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Variety and ambiguity of the content
Websites can cover a wide range of topics, often with content that overlaps between different categories. Finding a way to categorize these URLs so that the categories are both accurate and useful to the end user can be challenging.
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Rapid evolution of the Internet
Websites are constantly evolving, with new content added, sites disappearing, and changes in the relevance of topics. Therefore, maintaining a URL database up to date and accurately categorized is a demanding task.
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Massive volumes of data
With billions of active websites, the sheer volume of data to be processed can be overwhelming. This requires automated solutions, such as machine learning, to be trained, tested and constantly refined.
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User experience
It is paramount for classification systems to be designed with the end-user in mind, which means they must be intuitive, easy to navigate, and relevant to users' search needs.
Olfeo OEM offers the most reliable URL database on the market
Olfeo provides its URL database and domains as a white-label product to software publishers wishing to enhance the functionalities of their product.
Due to its reliability, the finesse of its categorization and its exhaustive coverage of 99%+ of queries, Olfeo OEM brings greater precision, context and value to the data collected by its customers.
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+ 100
Categories divided into 9 themes
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25 million
classified domains, corresponding to hundreds of millions of URLs
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99%
recognition rate of website queries
The most reliable classification on the market thanks to our database of categorized domains and URLs
With the ability to filter hundreds of millions of URLs, Olfeo's URL database is capable of efficiently covering users' browsing profiles. With a unique recognition rate of over 99%, the vast majority of consulted sites are recognized and correctly categorized thanks to our approach combining automatic AI-based pre-classification and validation by a human operator.
This unique approach effectively enriches the services provided by your software solutions.
All categorized content in our URL database is subjected to a double analysis: automatic and human. The systematic manual analysis of each categorized content, carried out by an Olfeo human expert, is a guarantee of quality. Our classification reliability rate is over 99%.
Systematic human verification of each piece of content is facilitated by the use of high-quality pre-ranking AI-based tools. The powerful artificial intelligence algorithms that analyze web pages, interacting with our keyword databases enriched by our linguists, deliver extremely high-quality pre-ranking results.
However, to achieve unrivalled classification finesse, only human intervention, supported by a proven methodology shared by the team, can achieve a navigation recognition rate of over 99% and a false positive rate close to 0.
Olfeo database integration requires no third-party software installation. You maintain control over data exchanged with your customers. You are completely autonomous in the use of our Olfeo databases, and their integration is extremely simple.
The 2.5 GB database can be easily integrated into any physical or virtual appliance. In the form of an LMDB file, the database is securely updated on a weekly basis to ensure that data remains up to date.
A continuous process is in place to ensure the quality of the data in the database:
1. The database is continually enriched through feedback from users of OLFEO products, through research for new domains covering targeted themes, and through monitoring and exploiting lists of domains available in open source.
2. The integration of a new artificial intelligence algorithm into our automatic pre-processing chain, in collaboration with the DGA (Direction Générale de L'Armement), offers us continuous improvement and enhanced accuracy in this initial domain classification stage.
3. Human analysis by our teams of experts confirms the automatic analysis, or corrects it if necessary.
4. Finally, continuous improvement enables us to monitor possible changes in content and update categories. New categories are also created to adapt to changes in Internet usage. For example, the Generative AI category was recently deployed in response to a request from our customers, who needed to track the usage of services linked to generative AI (ChatGPT etc.) services.
Olfeo OEM covers a wide range of use cases
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Cyber security
The Olfeo URL database helps improving the filtering capabilities of cyber security solutions.
With a recognition rate in excess of 99%, and false positives close to 0, cyber security solution editors can set up filtering that not only provides a very high level of security against malicious sites or sites containing illicit content, but also allows for fine-tuned access management according to groups or categories. -
Protecting brands and fighting counterfeiting
The Olfeo OEM database is regularly enriched with a large number of counterfeit sites, to assist brands in their monitoring of emerging threats.
The identification of counterfeit websites, based on over 20 years of classification experience, enables us to provide brands with a first level of detection and classification of so-called counterfeit sites.
Our in-house tools, using a machine-learning algorithm, make the difference in pre-identifying websites that could be considered fraudulent. But technology alone isn't enough to provide a precise enough answer. Olfeo's team of experienced analysts systematically checks and confirms all sites before the final classification into the relevant category.
This high-quality expertise is behind the Olfeo counterfeiting offer, built on the combination of this human analysis capability and our powerful in-house tools.
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Law investigations
Data from investigations and/or open sources are often very voluminous. This makes manual analysis difficult, especially as it often has to be carried out over a limited period of time. Relevant information has to be identified very quickly and swiftly.
Olfeo OEM enriches data and provides context to facilitate investigative actions with an excellent level of reliability.
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Evistel, a leading provider of solutions for Operators, has integrated Olfeo's URL database to offer a parental control service to Telecom Operators. The choice of the Olfeo database was an obvious one for us, in view of its reliability and the number of sensitive sites it contains, and represents an essential asset in protecting young audiences from unsolicited content.
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Ekinops leverages Olfeo technologies to differentiate its networking and SD-Wan solutions with advanced web security functions. Our solutions combined together uniquely identify and control applications over Internet.
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We work closely with Olfeo to incorporate their SaaS application database in our Ipanema SD-WAN product. By using the Olfeo database we enable Ipanema SD-WAN to deliver best in class application intelligence in the SD-WAN
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