A Review on Basics in Web Mining

Abstract: Today World Wide Web (WWW) is growing into eternity and it has massive wealth of information. Ordinary people also use the web to retrieve the needed and related semantic information. So that, mining the web is very essential in order to retrieve the necessary information for any user. Web mining can be categorised into the following, namely, Web Content Mining (WCM), Web Structure Mining (WSM) and Web Usage Mining (WUM). These categories can be reviewed by this paper. The two link analysis algorithms namely PageRank and Hyperlink Induced Topic Search are also discussed in the Web Structure Mining.

Keywords: Web mining, Web content, Web structure, Web usage, PageRank, Hyperlink Induced Topic Search.