There is a great amount of information on the web that can not be accessed by conventional crawler engines. This portion of the web is usually called hidden web data. To be able t...
: The number of applications that need to crawl the Web to gather data is growing at an ever increasing pace. In some cases, the criterion to determine what pages must be included ...
Current-day crawlers retrieve content only from the publicly indexable Web, i.e., the set of Web pages reachable purely by following hypertext links, ignoring search forms and pag...
The crawler engines of today cannot reach most of the information contained in the Web. A great amount of valuable information is “hidden” behind the query forms of online data...
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