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A focused crawler aims at discovering as many web pages and web sites relevant to a target topic as possible, while avoiding irrelevant ones. Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been a promising direction for optimizing focused crawling,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Andreas Kontogiannis , Dimitrios Kelesis , Vasilis Pollatos , George Giannakopoulos , Georgios Paliouras

The rapid growth of web has resulted in vast volume of information. Information availability at a rapid speed to the user is vital. English language (or any for that matter) has lot of ambiguity in the usage of words. So there is no…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-08-30 Jeevan H E , Prashanth P P , Punith Kumar S N , Vinay Hegde

Search engines have become an indispensable tool for browsing information on the Internet. The user, however, is often annoyed by redundant results from irrelevant Web pages. One reason is because search engines also look at non-informative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Dat Quoc Nguyen , Dai Quoc Nguyen , Son Bao Pham , The Duy Bui

Nowadays, the size of the Internet is experiencing rapid growth. As of December 2014, the number of global Internet websites has more than 1 billion and all kinds of information resources are integrated together on the Internet, however,the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Qingpei Guo , Chao Xu , Yang Song

This paper presents a framework for increasing the relevancy of the web pages retrieved by the search engine. The approach introduces a Predictive Prefetching Engine (PPE) which makes use of various data mining algorithms on the log…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-09-29 Jyoti , A. K. Sharma , Amit Goel

Search engine is main access to the largest information source in this world, Internet. Now Internet is changing every aspect of our life. Information retrieval service may be its most important services. But for common user, internet…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Wang Liang , Guo Yi-Ping , Fang Ming

Nowadays people realize that it is difficult to find information simply and quickly on the bulletin boards. In order to solve this problem, people propose the concept of bulletin board search engine. This paper describes the priscrawler…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Pu Yang , Jun Guo , Weiran Xu

Web crawling is the problem of keeping a cache of webpages fresh, i.e., having the most recent copy available when a page is requested. This problem is usually coupled with the natural restriction that the bandwidth available to the web…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Utkarsh Upadhyay , Robert Busa-Fekete , Wojciech Kotlowski , David Pal , Balazs Szorenyi

Due to the advancement in computer communication and storage technologies, large amount of image data is available on World Wide Web (WWW). In order to locate a particular set of images the available search engines may be used with the help…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-05 R Rajkumar , M V Sudhamani

Web crawl is a main source of large language models' (LLMs) pretraining data, but the majority of crawled web pages are discarded in pretraining due to low data quality. This paper presents Craw4LLM, an efficient web crawling method that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Shi Yu , Zhiyuan Liu , Chenyan Xiong

The World Wide Web (WWW) is the repository of large number of web pages which can be accessed via Internet by multiple users at the same time and therefore it is Ubiquitous in nature. The search engine is a key application used to search…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-09-25 K. C. Srikantaiah , P. L. Srikanth , V. Tejaswi , K. Shaila , K. R. Venugopal , L. M. Patnaik

Looking into the growth of information in the web it is a very tedious process of getting the exact information the user is looking for. Many search engines generate user profile related data listing. This paper involves one such process…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-09-12 L. K. Joshila Grace , V. Maheswari , Dhinaharan Nagamalai

Nowadays, the Web has become one of the most widespread platforms for information change and retrieval. As it becomes easier to publish documents, as the number of users, and thus publishers, increases and as the number of documents grows,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-07-04 Abdelhakim Herrouz , Chabane Khentout , Mahieddine Djoudi

As the use of web is increasing more day by day, the web users get easily lost in the web's rich hyper structure. The main aim of the owner of the website is to give the relevant information according their needs to the users. We explained…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-08-10 Laxmi Choudhary , Bhawani Shankar Burdak

Looking into the growth of information in the web it is a very tedious process of getting the exact information the user is looking for. Many search engines generate user profile related data listing. This paper involves one such process…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-09-12 L. K. Joshila Grace , V. Maheswari , Dhinaharan Nagamalai

For providing quick and accurate results, a search engine maintains a local snapshot of the entire web. And, to keep this local cache fresh, it employs a crawler for tracking changes across various web pages. However, finite bandwidth…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Kishor Patil , Gugan Thoppe

Modern web scraping struggles with dynamic, interactive websites that require more than static HTML parsing. Current methods are often brittle and require manual customization for each site. To address this, we introduce Webscraper, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Guan-Lun Huang , Yuh-Jzer Joung

Web is a wide term which mainly consists of surface web and hidden web. One can easily access the surface web using traditional web crawlers, but they are not able to crawl the hidden portion of the web. These traditional crawlers retrieve…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Manvi , Komal Kumar Bhatia , Ashutosh Dixit

Commercial web search engines employ near-duplicate detection to ensure that users see each relevant result only once, albeit the underlying web crawls typically include (near-)duplicates of many web pages. We revisit the risks and…

Deep Research systems based on web agents have shown strong potential in solving complex information-seeking tasks, yet their search efficiency remains underexplored. We observe that many state-of-the-art open-source web agents rely on long…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Junjie Wang , Zequn Xie , Dan Yang , Jie Feng , Yue Shen , Duolin Sun , Meixiu Long , Yihan Jiao , Zhehao Tan , Jian Wang , Peng Wei , Jinjie Gu