New paper in Cybermetrics: Baeza Yates et al., Characteristics ofthe Web of Spain

[Isidro F. Aguillo]

Characteristics of the Web of Spain
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Carlos Castillo, Vicente López
E-mail: ricardo.baeza at upf.edu

Cybermetrics, Vol. 9 (2005): Issue 1. Paper 3

http://www.cindoc.csic.es/cybermetrics/articles/v9i1p3.html

The Web is a massive and interlinked collection of documents, built
using a decentralized design to encourage the participation of many
authors who publish information through a huge number of Web sites. Its
characteristics are the result of the interaction between many
organizations and individuals, and those interactions generate a large
amount of diversity. This diversity means that several different topics
are represented on the Web, and at the same time that the overall
quality of pages and Web sites is very variable. The Web is very dynamic
and is growing at a very fast pace, and even when some of its properties
have been studied, there are several characteristics of it that are
still not fully known.

This article reports the results of an in-depth study over a large
collection of Web pages. On September and October 2004 we downloaded
more than 16 million Web pages from about 300,000 Web sites from the Web
of Spain. We show the characteristics of this collection at three
different granularity levels: Web pages, sites and domains. For each
level, we analyze contents, links, and technologies, and present
statistics and models. We found that some of the characteristics of this
collection resemble the ones of the Web at large, while others are
specific to the Web of Spain, or have not been studied in the past.


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