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How did you get the list of pages to download? Or was this spidering from some starting set? One hour on that connection means a maximum of 18GB of data, whic
by mkl 7y ago
How did you get the list of pages to download? Or was this spidering from some starting set?
One hour on that connection means a maximum of 18GB of data, which seems surprisingly small for a whole country's internet (not that I have any point of comparison), small enough that you could easily do interesting analysis of the whole lot.
- AlexDragusin 7y agoI've started off a seed list (compiled from both Alexa and Romanian Wikipedia) and from there on spidering through links found on each of the pages. I needed only the pages written in Romanian language so right after download, a language checking would take place along with the ranking and finally indexing. Please note that only the HTML was downloaded, no images/css/js etc so the size would be considerably less than if you would normally browse the pages. The HTML/CSS/JS would be sripped off, leaving the content for analysis, ranking and indexing. True and after that I realized how small the Romanian internet really is in the big picture, surely allowed me to put things into perspective. It's small enough that it would be doable to have a near realtime update of the index since less than 10% of sites update daily and less than 1% on hourly basis such as news sites. It correlates with traffic details of top trafficked webs in Romania where one of the top sites gets around 200k uniques a day, a small amount when you consider the big picture. It is likely that today the amount of data would be larger but not by much.