A computer system and method for capture, managing and presenting data
obtained from various often unrelated postings via the Internet for
examination by a user. This system includes a scraping module having one
or more scraping engines operable to scrape information data sets from
listings on the corporate sites and web sites, direct feeds, and other
sources, wherein the scraping module receives and stores the scraped
listing information data sets in a database. The system also has a
management platform coordinating all operation of and communication
between the sources, system administrators and processing modules. The
processing modules in the platform include scraping management module
analyzing selected scraped data stored in the database, and a
categorization module that examines and categorizes each data set stored
in the database into one or more of a predetermined set of categories and
returns categorized data sets to the database.