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Slides © 2007 Filippo Menczer, Indiana University School of Informatics Bing Liu: Web Data Mining. Springer, 2007 Ch. 8 Web Crawling by Filippo Menczer Googlebot & you
Motivation for crawlers Support universal search engines(Google, yahoo, MSN/Windows Live, Ask, etc.) Vertical(specialized) search engines, e. g news, shopping papers, recipes, reviews, etc Business intelligence: keep track of potential competitors partners Monitor Web sites of interest Evil: harvest emails for spamming, phishing Can you think of some others? Slides 2007 Filippo Menczer, Indiana University School of Informatics Bing Liu: Web Data Mining. Springer, 200 Ch 8 Web Crawing by Filippo Menczer informatics
Slides © 2007 Filippo Menczer, Indiana University School of Informatics Bing Liu: Web Data Mining. Springer, 2007 Ch. 8 Web Crawling by Filippo Menczer Motivation for crawlers • Support universal search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN/Windows Live, Ask, etc.) • Vertical (specialized) search engines, e.g. news, shopping, papers, recipes, reviews, etc. • Business intelligence: keep track of potential competitors, partners • Monitor Web sites of interest • Evil: harvest emails for spamming, phishing… • … Can you think of some others?…
a crawler within a search engine Web Page → repository googlebot Google Text link Query analysIs 四a= G oo8 hits Text index Page Rank Ranker Slides 2007 Filippo Menczer, Indiana University School of Informatics Bing Liu: Web Data Mining. Springer, 200 Ch 8 Web Crawing by Filippo Menczer informatics
Slides © 2007 Filippo Menczer, Indiana University School of Informatics Bing Liu: Web Data Mining. Springer, 2007 Ch. 8 Web Crawling by Filippo Menczer A crawler within a search engine Web Text index PageRank Page repository googlebot Text & link Query analysis hits Ranker
One taxonomy of crawlers Crawlers Universal crawlers Preferential crawlers Focused crawlers Topical crawlers Adaptive topical crawlers Static crawlers Evolutionary crawlers Reinforcement learning crawlers Best-first Page Rank Many other criteria could be used Incremental Interactive, Concurrent Etc Slides 2007 Filippo Menczer, Indiana University School of Informati Bing Liu: Web Data Mining. Springer, 200 Ch 8 Web Crawing by Filippo Menczer informatics
Slides © 2007 Filippo Menczer, Indiana University School of Informatics Bing Liu: Web Data Mining. Springer, 2007 Ch. 8 Web Crawling by Filippo Menczer One taxonomy of crawlers Universal crawlers Focused crawlers Evolutionary crawlers Reinforcement learning crawlers etc... Adaptive topical crawlers Best-first PageRank etc... Static crawlers Topical crawlers Preferential crawlers Crawlers • Many other criteria could be used: – Incremental, Interactive, Concurrent, Etc
Outline Motivation and taxonomy of crawlers Basic crawlers and implementation issues Universal crawlers Preferential (focused and topical)crawlers Evaluation of preferential crawlers Crawler ethics and conflicts New developments: social, collaborative federated crawlers Slides 2007 Filippo Menczer, Indiana University School of Informatics Bing Liu: Web Data Mining. Springer, 200 Ch 8 Web Crawing by Filippo Menczer informatics
Slides © 2007 Filippo Menczer, Indiana University School of Informatics Bing Liu: Web Data Mining. Springer, 2007 Ch. 8 Web Crawling by Filippo Menczer Outline • Motivation and taxonomy of crawlers • Basic crawlers and implementation issues • Universal crawlers • Preferential (focused and topical) crawlers • Evaluation of preferential crawlers • Crawler ethics and conflicts • New developments: social, collaborative, federated crawlers