Webometrics, the quantitative study of Web-related phenomena, emerged from the
realization that methods originally designed for bibliometric analysis of scientific journal …

Performance of any search engine relies heavily on its Web crawler. Web crawlers are the
programs that get webpages from the Web by following hyperlinks. These webpages are …

Information retrieval (IR) has changed considerably in recent years with the expansion of the
World Wide Web and the advent of modern and inexpensive graphical user interfaces and …

Liu has written a comprehensive text on Web mining, which consists of two parts. The first
part covers the data mining and machine learning foundations, where all the essential …

The rapid growth of the Web in the past two decades has made it the largest publicly
accessible data source in the world. Web mining aims to discover useful information or …

Software development and maintenance are costly endeavors. The cost can be reduced if
more software defects are detected earlier in the development cycle. This paper introduces …

This is a survey of the science and practice of web crawling. While at first glance web
crawling may appear to be merely an application of breadth-first-search, the truth is that …

Mining the Web: Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data is the first book devoted
entirely to techniques for producing knowledge from the vast body of unstructured Web data …

Current-day crawlers retrieve content only from the publicly indexable Web, ie, the set of
web pages reachable purely by following hypertext links, ignoring search forms and pages …

Using JavaScript and dynamic DOM manipulation on the client side of Web applications is
becoming a widespread approach for achieving rich interactivity and responsiveness in …