A Focused crawler must use information gleaned from previously crawled page sequences to estimate the relevance of a newly seen URL. Therefore, good performance depends on powerfu...
Hongyu Liu, Evangelos E. Milios, Jeannette Janssen
This paper proposes a method of crawling Web servers connected to the Internet without imposing a high processing load. We are using the crawler for a field survey of the digital ...
Katsuko T. Nakahira, Tetsuya Hoshino, Yoshiki Mika...
The Deep Web, i.e., content hidden behind HTML forms, has long been acknowledged as a significant gap in search engine coverage. Since it represents a large portion of the structu...
Jayant Madhavan, David Ko, Lucja Kot, Vignesh Gana...
We consider the problem of dust: Different URLs with Similar Text. Such duplicate URLs are prevalent in web sites, as web server software often uses aliases and redirections, and...
Identifying and tracking new information on the Web is important in sociology, marketing, and survey research, since new trends might be apparent in the new information. Such chan...