Title :
A Web census is possible
Author :
Benoit, Darcy ; Slauenwhite, Devin ; Trudel, André
Author_Institution :
Jodrey Sch. of Comput. Sci., Acadia Univ., Wolfville, NS
Abstract :
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
Keywords :
Internet; demography; Web census; World Wide Web; Computer science; Internet; Performance evaluation; Radio access networks; Search engines; Size measurement; Testing; Upper bound; Web server; Web sites;
Conference_Titel :
Applications and the Internet, 2006. SAINT 2006. International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Phoenix, AZ
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2508-3
DOI :
10.1109/SAINT.2006.11
