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Scientific study presents a search log analysis of a search engine

August 4, 2024August 6, 2015 by admin

Last updated on August 4th, 2024 at 06:00 pm

This research presents a characterization of the information-seeking behaviour of the users of a Portuguese web search engine, based on the analysis of its logs.

The paper A Search Log Analysis of a Portuguese Web Search Engine, by Miguel Costa and Mário J. Silva, was presented at INForum 2010 – Simpósio de Informática, in Braga, Portugal.

Presentation

We reached 1 200 million archived contents

August 4, 2024August 29, 2011 by admin

Last updated on August 4th, 2024 at 06:18 pm

Numbers from July 2011 about volume of archived data.

We reached 1 200 million contents archived since 1996, 79% of them are indexed
We save 62% of disk space by using DeDuplicator on our daily crawls
We estimated to have disk space until 2017 to archive data and memory until 2014 to make it searchable

Trends in the evolution of the Web: we have published a video about our study

August 4, 2024May 17, 2011 by admin

Last updated on August 4th, 2024 at 06:21 pm

Talk about the evolution of Web characteristics, based on a scientific study performed by the Portuguese Web Archive.

The presentation focuses on the following points:

The Web
Web Archiving and crawlers
Web characteristics and its evolution within 5 years
The importance of the study on Web trends in the design of tools that process its data

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