LinkGuide: Towards a Better Collection of Hyperlinks in a Website Homepage

—A dramatic and continuous increase in the complexity and size of websites on the Internet makes rather difficult to build such websites with required information to be easily found. This study addresses an intelligent approach to design and implement the homepages of the various types of websites; such as commercial, portal, and search engine websites. In particular, the study aims to study the problem of how from a large set of hyperlinks available in those websites, to recommend a small optimal collection of hyperlinks, leading to the required information with the maximum speed and least efforts. The objective of this hyperlink recommendation is to maximize the efficiency, effectiveness, and utilization of the homepage of a Website. As a result, LinkGuide – a Web Mining based framework, is proposed to solve this hyperlink recommendation problem. The study discusses an overview of the design status of LinkGuide, and presents an evaluation criterion that will be used to measure th...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: WCE
• Authors: Ahmad Ammari, Valentina V. Zharkova
• Keywords: Hyperlink, Hyperlink Recommendation, Search Engine Websites, WCE 2007, WCE 2008