WEB MINING

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Introduction
It is not exaggerated to say the Web World Web is the most excited impacts to the
human society in the last 10 years. It changes the ways of doing business, providing
and receiving education, managing the organization etc. The most direct effect is the
completed change of information collection, conveying, and exchange. Today,Web has
turned to be the largest information source available in this planet. The Web is a huge,
explosive, diverse, dynamic and mostly unstructured data repository, which supplies
incredible amount of information, and also raises the complexity of how to deal with
the information from the different perspectives of view - users, Web service providers,
business analysts. The users want to have the effective search tools to find relevant
information easily and precisely.

Terminology related to web mining

1.1.1 Web
Now a day the internet, otherwise called the web, is widely used in several fields. The
advent of e-Commerce has revolutionized several business industries such as banking
and insurance. You can get information studies and communicate with educational
institutions. Because of the dynamic nature of the web, you may face challenges to
locate any specific domain of information[10].

1.1.2 Mining
Mining is a technique of information or knowledge discovery from millions of sources
across theWeb[10].

1.1.3 Web Mining
Web mining is a specialized application of data mining. The web mining is a technique
to process information available on web and search for useful data. Web mining enables
you to discover web pages, text documents, multimedia files, images and other
types of resources from web. Web mining is widely used in several fields[10].

1.2 Motivation
TheWorldWideWeb (Web) is popular and interactive medium to disseminate information
today. The Web is huge, diverse, dynamic, widely distributed global information
service center. Users could encounter following problems when interacting with the
Web:

1.2.1 Finding relevant information
Most people use some search service when they want to find specific information on
the Web. A user usually inputs a simple keyword query and a result is a list of ranked
pages. This ranking is based on their similarity to the query. Today’s search tools have
some problems: Low precision and low recall, mainly because of wrong or incomplete
keyword query. This leads to irrelevance of many search results.