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Understanding Website Behavior based on User Agent
Abstract
Web sites have adopted a variety of adversarial techniques to prevent web crawlers from retrieving their content. While it is possible to simulate users behavior using a browser to crawl such sites, this approach is not scalable. Therefore, understanding existing adversarial techniques is important to design crawling strategies that can adapt to retrieve the content as efficiently as possible. Ideally, a web crawler should detect the nature of the adversarial policies and select the most cost-effective means to defeat them.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Pham, K., Santos, A., & Freire, J.
- Affiliations
- New York University, New York, NY, USA
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2016-07-07
- Pages
- 1053-1056
- Cited by
- 14
- References
- 9
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (CI-EN-1405927,CNS-1229185)
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (FA8750-14-2-0236)
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