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Trawling the Web for emerging cyber-communities

Kumar, Ravi, Raghavan, Prabhakar, Rajagopalan, Sridhar, Tomkins, Andrew·1999·Computer Networks

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The Web harbors a large number of communities — groups of content-creators sharing a common interest — each of which manifests itself as a set of interlinked Web pages. Newgroups and commercial Web directories together contain of the order of 20,000 such communities; our particular interest here is on emerging communities — those that have little or no representation in such fora. The subject of this paper is the systematic enumeration of over 100,000 such emerging communities from a Web crawl: we call our process trawling. We motivate a graph-theoretic approach to locating such communities, and describe the algorithms, and the algorithmic engineering necessary to find structures that subscribe to this notion, the challenges in handling such a huge data set, and the results of our experiment. © 1999 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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Authors
Kumar, R., Raghavan, P., Rajagopalan, S., & Tomkins, A.
Venue
Computer Networks
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
1999-05
Volume
31
Issue
11-16
Pages
1481-1493
ISSN
1389-1286 (ISSN-L)
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W2151626491
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1,000
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112.18
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journal article
Language
en
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Kumar, R., Raghavan, P., Rajagopalan, S., & Tomkins, A. (1999). Trawling the Web for emerging cyber-communities. Computer Networks. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1389-1286(99)00040-7

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