Web Search Engines and Web Mining: a Survey

The World Wide Web, abbreviated as WWW [1] and commonly known as the Web, is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite [16] (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. WWW resources are organized to allow users to navigate easily from one resource to another. The navigation is done by WWW using an application known as a WWW browser client. The browser presents formatted text, images, sound, or other objects, such as hyperlinks, in the form of a WWW page on a computer screen. The user can click on a hyperlink to navigate to other WWW pages. These links exist across the global Internet to form a large-scale, distributed, multimedia knowledge base that relates words, phrases, images, or other information.