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The data may be useful to anyone interested in web science, with various applications in the field. Sebastian Nagel. Sebastian is a Distinguished Engineer at the Common Crawl Foundation.…

Michael is a data scientist with a PhD in Web Science and a background in theoretical physics, specialising in large scale analysis of web content and collaborative knowledge production.…

Web Data Commons Extraction Framework for the Distributed Processing of CC Data.…

Common Crawl builds and maintains an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone. Publishers have been sending Common Crawl legal opt-out requests.…

The Norvig Web Data Science Award. We are very excited to announce the Norvig Web Data Science Award! Common Crawl and SARA created the award to encourage research in web data science. Common Crawl Foundation.…

Web Archives for Social Sciences Datathon, Bristol. Recently, a two-day Bristol datathon used Common Crawl web archives to analyse UK industries and policy, strengthening social science research through hands-on, team-based work. Thom Vaughan.…

The Winners of The Norvig Web Data Science Award. We are very excited to announce that the winners of the Norvig Web Data Science Award Lesley Wevers, Oliver Jundt, and Wanno Drijfhout from the University of Twente! Common Crawl Foundation.…

Web Graphs. Choose a Web Graph. Common Crawl regularly releases host- and domain-level graphs, for visualising the crawl data. You can browse all available releases on our. Web Graphs Index. page.…

Professor Hendler is the Head of the Computer Science Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and also serves as the Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science at RPI’s Tetherless World Constellation. Common Crawl Foundation.…

Web Data Commons. For the last few months, we have been talking with Chris Bizer and Hannes Mühleisen at the Freie Universität Berlin about their work and we have been greatly looking forward the announcement of the Web Data Commons.…

The Open Cloud Consortium’s Open Science Data Cloud. Common Crawl has started talking with the Open Cloud Consortium (OCC) about working together.…

Common Crawl builds and maintains an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone. Next week a few members of the Common Crawl team are going the. Data 2.0 Summit. in San Francisco.…

) use case of helping consumers find the web pages for local businesses…”.…

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Göttingen. Malte’s research has mainly focused on information retrieval, recommender systems, and language modeling.…

He is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Washington (American Ethnic Studies and Computer Science & Engineering).…

Common Crawl builds and maintains an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone. Why The Open Data Platform Is Such A Big Deal for Big Data. – via.…

He was founder and CEO of Blekko, a web search engine; the Open Directory Project, an innovative community-edited search platform; Topix, a news aggregator combined with a social forum; and Tobiko, a restaurant recommendation platform.…

Web Archiving File Formats Explained. In the ever–evolving landscape of digital archiving and data analysis, it is helpful to understand the various file formats used for web crawling.…

Since the end of 2024, the Common Crawl Foundation has committed to. expanding the language coverage of its crawls. in order to facilitate the creation of web and language technologies for underrepresented languages.…

Common Crawl maintains a. free, open repository. of web crawl data that can be used by anyone. Common Crawl is a 501(c)(3) non–profit founded in 2007. We make wholesale extraction, transformation and analysis of open web data accessible to researchers.…

We recently had the honor of briefing the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on the role of The Common Crawl Foundation as critical infrastructure in the artificial intelligence ecosystem and how we can support U.S. federal efforts in…

Alex Xue is a Computer Science graduate from the University of Waterloo, and Emeritus Member of the Common Crawl Foundation. Alex has previously worked at Snap, Robinhood and Databricks. The Data. Overview. CDXJ Index. Columnar Index. Web Graphs.…

Stephen Merity is an independent AI researcher, who is passionate about machine learning, Open Data, and teaching computer science. The Data. Overview. CDXJ Index. Columnar Index. Web Graphs. Latest Crawl. Crawl Stats. Graph Stats. Errata. Resources.…

Hyperlink Graph from Web Data Commons. The talented team at Web Data Commons recently extracted and analyzed the hyperlink graph within the Common Crawl 2012 corpus. Altogether, they found 128 billion hyperlinks connecting 3.5 billion pages.…

Lilith specializes in the strategic application of data science, AI/machine learning, and analytics.…

Measuring Web Accessibility from Crawl Archives. A WCAG colour contrast audit of 240 top domains using Common Crawl's February 2026 archive finds four in ten colour pairings fall short of accessibility thresholds.…

Ford is currently pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.…

Most notably, in 2007 he founded the Common Crawl Foundation which provides a petabyte-scale web crawl free of cost. He also sits on the Board of Directors of XPRIZE Foundation which leverages the power of competition to catalyze innovation.…

She holds a bachelor’s from Harvard where she studied Environmental Science, Architecture, and Economics. Joy lives by the motto "life is uncertain, eat dessert first". The Data. Overview. CDXJ Index. Columnar Index. Web Graphs. Latest Crawl. Crawl Stats.…

She has worked in the areas of Open Access publishing, Open Science, Open Data, copyright, digital rights and policy. Lisa was Chief of Staff at Creative Commons and served as the director of Common Crawl from 2011 to 2015.…

Alex is a Computer Science graduate from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and emeritus member of the Common Crawl Foundation.…

With a PhD in computer science and 13+ years of experience as an early member of Google’s AI team, Praveen has been at the forefront of AI research and systems implementation.…

Common Crawl builds and maintains an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone. The prize package for the. Common Crawl Code Contest. now includes three. Nexus 7 tablets. thanks to. TalentBin. !…

While the Open Search Foundation is dedicated to building a search infrastructure independent of commercial interests, we at Common Crawl are committed to ensuring that web crawl data is accessible to everyone, not just large corporations.…

Thom Vaughan and Pedro Ortiz Suarez discussed the power of Common Crawl’s open web data in driving research and innovation during two notable presentations last week. Common Crawl Foundation.…

Common Crawl builds and maintains an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone.…

Web Languages Needing Review by Native Speakers. Common Crawl’s Web Languages initiative has had many contributions since its introduction.…

Common Crawl builds and maintains an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone. The Stanford Human-Centered AI Institute (HAI). , co-founded by Dr.…

Web Graph Statistics Gets a Proper Upgrade.…

Common Crawl's First In-House Web Graph. We are pleased to announce the release of a host-level web graph of recent monthly crawls (February, March, April 2017). The graph consists of 385 million nodes and 2.5 billion edges. Sebastian Nagel.…

We’re happy to share our January/February 2025 newsletter with updates and insights from the world of open data and web archiving. Jen English.…

Jen English is a seasoned professional with a core competency in web content curation, web crawling, taxonomies, and ontology creation. Table of Contents. Web Languages Project. NeurIPS Social with Common Crawl and Wikimedia. Event Updates.…

IIPC General Assembly & Web Archiving Conference 2025. The Common Crawl team attended the 2025 IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference in Oslo, presenting recent work and participating in discussions on web preservation. Thom Vaughan.…

Their work spans areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP), data science, and the creation of reproducible pipelines for large-scale text analysis. The Data. Overview. CDXJ Index. Columnar Index. Web Graphs. Latest Crawl. Crawl Stats. Graph Stats.…

This is a guest blog post by Frank McSherry, a computer science researcher active in the area of large scale data analysis. While at Microsoft Research he co-invented differential privacy, and lead the Naiad streaming dataflow project.…

It invites research papers on multilingual data quality and offers a shared task on language identification for web text. Laurie Burchell. Laurie is a Senior Research Engineer at the Common Crawl Foundation.…

He holds a PhD in computer science and Natural Language Processing from Sorbonne Université. Pedro’s research has mainly focused on how data quality impacts ML models’ performance and how to improve these models through data-driven approaches.…

Common Crawl builds and maintains an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone. There is still plenty of time left to participate in the. Common Crawl code contest. !…

After earning a degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M University's Dept of Engineering, she worked at Motorola as a real-time embedded engineer, building two-way radio systems for law enforcement.…

Alex is a Computer Science graduate from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and emeritus member of the Common Crawl Foundation. What is a Crawler?…

This will be a great chance to network with a diverse group of professionals from across the fields of science, data, and medicine. Introduction to Hadoop. on Tuesday, April 24th, 6:30pm at Swissnex.…

The methodology we followed was to take all the pages of the FineWeb dataset, see if they were included in GneissWeb, and calculate the four classification scores (medical, science, technology, educational) on the specified records.…

Common Crawl builds and maintains an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone. Do you have a project that you are working on for the. Common Crawl Code Contest. that is not quite ready? If so, you are not the only one.…

SlideShare: Building a Scalable Web Crawler with Hadoop. Common Crawl on building an open Web-Scale crawl using Hadoop. Common Crawl Foundation.…

Video: Gil Elbaz at Web 2.0 Summit 2011. Hear Common Crawl founder discuss how data accessibility is crucial to increasing rates of innovation as well as give ideas on how to facilitate increased access to data. Common Crawl Foundation.…

A Look Inside Our 210TB 2012 Web Corpus. Want to know more detail about what data is in the 2012 Common Crawl corpus without running a job? Now you can thanks to Sebastian Spiegler! Common Crawl Foundation.…

Now Available: Host- and Domain-Level Web Graphs. We are pleased to announce the release of host-level and domain-level web graphs based on the published crawls of May, June, and July 2017.…

IPv6 Adoption Across the Top 100K Web Hosts. We probed the 100,000 most-linked web hosts for IPv6 support using the Common Crawl Web Graph. Only 36.9% are fully reachable over IPv6, with adoption ranging from 71% among the top 100 to 32% in the long tail.…

Optimising Web Accessibility Evaluation: Population Sourcing Methods for Web Accessibility Evaluation. “We present a tool-supported framework, OPTIMAL-EM, that runs parallel to the Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM).…

Recently CommonCrawl has switched to the Web ARChive (WARC) format. The WARC format allows for more efficient storage and processing of CommonCrawl's free multi-billion page web archives, which can be hundreds of terabytes in size. Stephen Merity.…