A Web census is possible

A Web census is possible

How big is the World Wide Web? Over the last few years, researchers have used various approaches to estimate the size of the Web. The large size of the Web and the technology available at the time dictated that only estimation experiments were feasible. We hypothesize that an exact measurement (i.e....

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Hauptverfasser: Benoit, D., Slauenwhite, D., Trudel, A.
Format: Tagungsbericht
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Computer science
Internet
Performance evaluation
Radio access networks
Search engines
Size measurement
Testing
Upper bound
Web server
Web sites
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Zusammenfassung:How big is the World Wide Web? Over the last few years, researchers have used various approaches to estimate the size of the Web. The large size of the Web and the technology available at the time dictated that only estimation experiments were feasible. We hypothesize that an exact measurement (i.e., a census) of the Web is now possible. We present evidence for our hypothesis, and describe a census we performed to test the hypothesis
DOI:10.1109/SAINT.2006.11