So we used Built-with to search for Shopify stores as a keyword in Cla...

So we used Built-with to search for Shopify stores as a keyword in Clay via our API. Clay found some matches for them. However upon checking that same company's domain directly via Built-with Chrome Plug in we could not detect Shopify. Could someone please explain me why is that and what are we doing wrong here? How can we be sure that the stores are indeed using Shopify plugin?

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Clay Team
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Clay Team
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Hey Ammar K., thanks for reaching out! That's a great question and not sure why BuiltWith would return two different results even though this is their own API running the search through their service. Do you have any documentation on the extension and how it works?Keethu R., would you happen to know why there's a discrepancy here?
Ammar K.
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Thanks for jumping on this Arturo. Its just this regular built-with extension. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/builtwith-technology-prof/dapjbgnjinbpoindlpdmhochffioedbn?pli=1
Keethu R.
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Hey Ammar K., can you give me some example domains where you're seeing the discrepancies?
Ammar K.
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Hi Keethu
Ammar K.
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Let me get back to you on this
Ammar K.
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This is the response I got from Builtwith 'I think that is similar to using a keyword for "shopify" which is different from the technology Shopify i.e. "shopify" the keyword is basically any sites which mentions shopify as a keyword in the page title/description.' What do you think?
Ammar K.
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Still waiting on my CoFounder to give you an example company with this issue.
Keethu R.
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This is the endpoint that we are using and since there are no built in technology/ keyword filter parameters, we are doing the filtering on our end. In our implementation, if you would only like your filter to match the technology itself and not keywords/ tags, you can toggle on the return exact technology names toggle. Let me know if you have any other questions!
Ammar K.
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That helps thanks Keethu 🙂
Steven W.
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Hopefully BW has gotten better but in my experience they have out of date store data and double count Shopify stores since each one has 2 URL’s the primary one and the store one .myshopify.com