Four Heuristics to Guide Structured Content Crawling
Umbrich, Jürgen ; Harth, Andreas ; Hogan, Aidan ; Decker, Stefan
Umbrich, Jürgen
Harth, Andreas
Hogan, Aidan
Decker, Stefan
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2008
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Jürgen Umbrich, Andreas Harth, Aidan Hogan, Stefan Decker "Four Heuristics to Guide Structured Content Crawling", 8th International Conference on Web Engineering (Short Paper), 2008.
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Search engines focusing on particular media types face difficulties in discovering suitable URIs on the Web. Since the engines are only interested in a small fraction of the Web, a crawler should use heuristics to concentrate on that fraction. To devise such a heuristic, we postulate four hypotheses based on RFCs and W3C recommendations to find cues for certain content types. Tests on a corpus of 22m files (793GB content size) containing 630m URIs show that for the content types text, image, and application, the recommendations are mostly being followed, while results for audio and video are much less consistent. Our findings and recommendations can be implemented as heuristics for efficient discovery of structured content on the Web on top of existing crawlers.
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Ireland