At Common Crawl we’ve been busy recently! After announcing the release of 2012 data and other enhancements, we are now excited to share with you this short video that explains why we here at Common Crawl are working hard to bring web crawl data to anyone who wants to use it. We hope it gets you excited about our work too. Please help us share this by posting, forwarding, and tweeting widely! We want our message to be broadcast loud and clear: openly accessible web crawl data is a powerful resource for education, research, and innovation of every kind.

We also hope that by the end of the video, you’ll be so inspired that you’ll be left itching to get your hands on our terabytes of data. Which is exactly why we’re launching our FIRST EVER CODE CONTEST. We’re calling all open data and open web enthusiasts to help us demonstrate the power of web crawl data to inform Job Trends and offer Social Impact Analysis, two examples given the video. If you’re up for the challenge, head over to our contest page to learn all the details of how to submit and get more ideas for ways to seek information from the corpus of data in these two very important fields of interest. The contest will be open for submission for just six weeks – until August 29th, and we’ve got some seriously awesome prizes and stellar judges lined up. So get coding!