A website can regulate search engine crawler access to its content using the robots exclusion protocol, specified in its robots.txt file. The rules in the protocol enable the site...
This paper takes an overview of the web mining concept and how it can be useful and beneficial to the business improvement by facilitating its applications in various areas over t...
Access to on-line information via the Web is exploding. Index and retrieval engines already start to integrate a huge variety of heterogeneous repositories. However, the heterogen...
Boris Chidlovskii, Uwe M. Borghoff, Pierre-Yves Ch...
Search engines largely rely on robots (i.e., crawlers or spiders) to collect information from the Web. Such crawling activities can be regulated from the server side by deploying ...
Yang Sun, Ziming Zhuang, Isaac G. Councill, C. Lee...
In this paper, we report results of an investigation into the factors influencing the selection of sponsored links by e-commerce Web searchers. In this research, 56 participants e...