Ch 8: Web Crawling By Filippo menczer Indiana University School of Informatics in Web data Mining by Bing Liu Springer 2007 informatics
Ch. 8: Web Crawling By Filippo Menczer Indiana University School of Informatics in Web Data Mining by Bing Liu Springer, 2007
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
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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 Q: How does a search engine know that all these pages contain the query terms? A: Because all of those pages have been crawled
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Many names Crawler spider Robot(or bot) Web agent Wanderer, worm And famous instances: googlebot scooter, slurp, msnbot Slides 2007 Filippo Menczer, Indiana University School of Informatics Indiana University School of 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 Many names • Crawler • Spider • Robot (or bot) • Web agent • Wanderer, worm, … • And famous instances: googlebot, scooter, slurp, msnbot, …
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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
