Microscale evolution of web pages

  • Authors:
  • Carrie Grimes

  • Affiliations:
  • Google Inc, Mountain View, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We track a large set of "rapidly" changing web pages and examine the assumption that the arrival of content changes follows a Poisson process on a microscale. We demonstrate that there are significant differences in the behavior of pages that can be exploited to maintain freshness in a web corpus.