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Common Crawl - Blog - Web Image Size Prediction for Efficient Focused Image Crawling

Web Image Size Prediction for Efficient Focused Image Crawling. This is a guest blog post by Katerina Andreadou, a research assistant at CERTH, specializing in multimedia analysis and web crawling.

Common Crawl - Blog - 5 Good Reads in Big Open Data: March 20 2015

Startup Orbital Insight uses deep learning and finds financially useful information in aerial imagery - via MIT Technology Review: “To predict retail sales based on retailers’ parking lots, humans at Orbital Insights use Google Street View images to pinpoint

Common Crawl - Blog - 5 Good Reads in Big Open Data: March 26 2015

Cukierski explains: “It is hard to say how well machine learning has improved forecasts prior to Kaggle; allow people to predict before the beginning of the tournament–make a prediction for every single game that could ever occur in the tournament.

Common Crawl - Blog - April 2018 Crawl Archive Now Available

We took actions to reduce the amount of images unintentionally crawled: Although our crawler is focused to fetch HTML pages, there has always been a small amount (1-2%) of other document formats.

Common Crawl - Blog - Analyzing a Web graph with 129 billion edges using FlashGraph

&. 2. , the current distributed graph processing frameworks have substantial overhead in order to scale out; we should seek performance and capacity (the size of a graph that can be processed).

Common Crawl - Blog - 5 Good Reads in Big Open Data: March 13 2015

great presentation of research, software, talks and more on Deep Learning, Graphical Models, Structured Predictions, Hadoop/Spark, Natural Language Processing and all things Machine Learning.

Common Crawl - Blog - August 2014 Crawl Data Available

The new dataset is over 200TB in size containing approximately 2.8 billion webpages. Stephen Merity. Stephen Merity is an independent AI researcher, who is passionate about machine learning, open data, and teaching computer science.

Common Crawl - Blog - July 2014 Crawl Data Available

The new dataset is over 266TB in size containing approximately 3.6 billion webpages. Stephen Merity. Stephen Merity is an independent AI researcher, who is passionate about machine learning, open data, and teaching computer science.

Common Crawl - Blog - April 2014 Crawl Data Available

The new dataset is over 183TB in size containing approximately 2.6 billion webpages. Stephen Merity. Stephen Merity is an independent AI researcher, who is passionate about machine learning, open data, and teaching computer science.

Common Crawl - Blog - December 2014 Crawl Archive Available

This crawl archive is over 160TB in size and contains 2.08 billion webpages. Stephen Merity. Stephen Merity is an independent AI researcher, who is passionate about machine learning, open data, and teaching computer science.

Common Crawl - Blog - Host- and Domain-Level Web Graphs Feb/Mar/Apr 2019

Note that previous web graph releases already include all kinds of links: not only. but also links to images and multi-media content, links from. elements, canonical links. , and many more.

Common Crawl - Blog - March 2014 Crawl Data Now Available

The new dataset contains approximately 2.8 billion webpages and is about 223TB in size. Common Crawl Foundation. Common Crawl builds and maintains an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone.

Common Crawl - Blog - January 2015 Crawl Archive Available

This crawl archive is over 139TB in size and contains 1.82 billion webpages. Stephen Merity. Stephen Merity is an independent AI researcher, who is passionate about machine learning, open data, and teaching computer science.

Common Crawl - Blog - September 2014 Crawl Archive Available

This crawl archive is over 220TB in size and contains 2.98 billion webpages. Stephen Merity. Stephen Merity is an independent AI researcher, who is passionate about machine learning, open data, and teaching computer science.

Common Crawl - Blog - October 2014 Crawl Archive Available

This crawl archive is over 254TB in size and contains 3.72 billion webpages. Stephen Merity. Stephen Merity is an independent AI researcher, who is passionate about machine learning, open data, and teaching computer science.

Common Crawl - Blog - February 2015 Crawl Archive Available

This crawl archive is over 145TB in size and over 1.9 billion webpages. Stephen Merity. Stephen Merity is an independent AI researcher, who is passionate about machine learning, open data, and teaching computer science.

Common Crawl - Blog - November 2014 Crawl Archive Available

This crawl archive is over 135TB in size and contains 1.95 billion webpages. Stephen Merity. Stephen Merity is an independent AI researcher, who is passionate about machine learning, open data, and teaching computer science.

Common Crawl - Blog - 5 Good Reads in Big Open Data: Feb 13 2015

Backblaze provides online backup services storing data on over 41,000 hard drives ranging from 1 terabyte to 6 terabytes in size. They have released an open, downloadable dataset on the reliability of these drives.

Common Crawl - Blog - March 2015 Crawl Archive Available

This crawl archive is over 124TB in size and holds more than 1.64 billion webpages. Stephen Merity. Stephen Merity is an independent AI researcher, who is passionate about machine learning, open data, and teaching computer science.

Common Crawl - Blog - June 2015 Crawl Archive Available

This crawl archive is over 131TB in size and holds more than 1.67 billion webpages. Stephen Merity. Stephen Merity is an independent AI researcher, who is passionate about machine learning, open data, and teaching computer science.

Common Crawl - Blog - May 2015 Crawl Archive Available

This crawl archive is over 159TB in size and holds more than 2.05 billion webpages. Stephen Merity. Stephen Merity is an independent AI researcher, who is passionate about machine learning, open data, and teaching computer science.

Common Crawl - Blog - August 2015 Crawl Archive Available

This crawl archive is over 149TB in size and holds more than 1.84 billion webpages. Stephen Merity. Stephen Merity is an independent AI researcher, who is passionate about machine learning, open data, and teaching computer science.

Common Crawl - Blog - July 2015 Crawl Archive Available

This crawl archive is over 145TB in size and holds more than 1.81 billion webpages. Stephen Merity. Stephen Merity is an independent AI researcher, who is passionate about machine learning, open data, and teaching computer science.

Common Crawl - Blog - April 2015 Crawl Archive Available

This crawl archive is over 168TB in size and holds more than 2.11 billion webpages. Stephen Merity. Stephen Merity is an independent AI researcher, who is passionate about machine learning, open data, and teaching computer science.

Common Crawl - Blog - 5 Good Reads in Big Open Data: February 27 2015

Of course, the ideas of sports and business were also discovered by the algorithm, but that representation, it turns out, is also useful for prediction.

Common Crawl - Blog - New Crawl Data Available!

The data was collected in 2013, contains approximately 2 billion web pages and is 102TB in size (uncompressed). Common Crawl Foundation. Common Crawl builds and maintains an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone.

Common Crawl - Team - Pete Skomoroch

He spent the previous 6 years in Boston implementing Biodefense pattern detection algorithms for streaming sensor data at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and constructing predictive models for large retail datasets at Profitlogic (now Oracle Retail).

Common Crawl - Blog - Navigating the WARC file 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.

Common Crawl - Blog - Balancing Discovery and Privacy: A Look Into Opt–Out Protocols

ML models use data crawled from weather websites and satellite imagery to make more accurate weather predictions and study climate–change patterns.

Common Crawl - Blog - November 2015 Crawl Archive Now Available

This crawl archive is over 151TB in size and holds more than 1.82 billion urls. Ilya Kreymer. Ilya Kreymer is Lead Software Engineer at Webrecorder Software.

Common Crawl - Blog - September 2015 Crawl Archive Now Available

This crawl archive is over 106TB in size and holds more than 1.32 billion urls. Ilya Kreymer. Ilya Kreymer is Lead Software Engineer at Webrecorder Software.

Common Crawl - Blog - Winter 2013 Crawl Data Now Available

The new dataset was collected at the end of 2013, contains approximately 2.3 billion webpages and is 148TB in size. Common Crawl Foundation.

Common Crawl - Blog - Common Crawl Statistics Now Available on Hugging Face

Crawl Size. Top 500 Domains. Languages. MIME Types. Top–Level Domains. Charsets. The table shows the percentage of how character sets have been used to encode HTML pages crawled by the latest monthly crawls.

Common Crawl - Blog - August/September 2024 Newsletter

The total size of our corpus now exceeds 8 PiB, with WARC data alone exceeding 7 PiB—a growth of 10.87% in the past year.

Common Crawl - Blog - 2012 Crawl Data Now Available

Along with this release, we’ve published an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to help both new and experienced users get up and running quickly.

Common Crawl - Blog - Opening the Gates to Online Safety

different angles; it could lead the public to mistakenly view AI safety as focused solely on existential scenarios rather than addressing a wide spectrum of safety challenges; and it risks creating resistance to safety measures among those who disagree with predictions

Common Crawl - Blog - Announcing the Common Crawl Index!

The script will print out an update of the progress: Adjusting Page Size. It is also possible to adjust the page size to increase or decrease the number of “blocks” in the page. (Each block is a compressed chunk and can not be split further).

Common Crawl - Erratum - Content is truncated

Some archived content is truncated due to fetch size limits imposed during crawling. This is necessary to handle infinite or exceptionally large data streams (e.g. radio streams). Prior to March 2025 (CC-MAIN-2025-13), the truncation threshold was 1 MiB.

Common Crawl - Blog - Evaluating graph computation systems

As popular as graph processing systems have become, their evaluation has largely either been on small to medium size data sets, or behind the closed doors of corporate data centers.

Common Crawl - Blog - Data 2.0 Summit

Some of the highlights I am looking forward to in addition to Gil and Eva’s panels are: “Data Science and Predicting the Future”. Anthony Goldbloom. of. Kaggle. , Joe Lonsdale. of Anduin Ventures and.

Common Crawl - Blog - Still time to participate in the Common Crawl code contest

Amazon Machine Image. and a. quick start guide. If you are looking for help with your work or a collaborator, you can post on the. Discussion Group. We are looking forward to seeing what you come up with! The Data. Overview. Web Graphs. Latest Crawl.

Common Crawl - Blog - Amazon Web Services sponsoring $50 in credit to all contest entrants!

Amazon Machine Image. AWS has been a great supporter of the code contest as well as of Common Crawl in general. We are deeply appreciative for all they’re doing to help spread the word about Common Crawl and make our dataset easily accessible! The Data.

Common Crawl - Erratum - ARC Format (Legacy) Crawls

It encapsulates multiple resources (web pages, images, etc.) into a single file, with each resource preceded by a header containing metadata such as the URL, MIME type, and length.

Common Crawl - Blog - July/August 2021 crawl archive now available

The change reduces the size of the. robots.txt subset (since August 2016). by removing content which should not contained in this dataset. Archive Location and Download.

Common Crawl - Blog - 5 Good Reads in Big Open Data: Feb 20 2015

Image via Flowing Data. On the ongoing debate over the possible dangers of Artificial Intelligence. – via.

Common Crawl - Web Graphs

Hostnames in the graph are in. reverse domain name notation. and all types of links are listed, including purely “technical” links pointing to images, JavaScript libraries, web fonts, etc. However, only hostnames with a valid. IANA TLD. are used.

Common Crawl - Blog - White House Briefing on Open Data’s Role in Technology

Crawl can play as a responsible actor in the open data space, we were a signatory to. an announcement from the White House. on September 12, 2024, regarding voluntary private sector commitments to responsibly source their datasets and safeguard them from image-based

Common Crawl - Blog - Interactive Webgraph Statistics Notebook Released

WebGraph. framework, which provides means of gathering many interesting data points of a web graph, such as the frequency distribution of indegrees/outdegrees in the graph, or size distributions of the. connected components.

Common Crawl - Blog - March/April 2025 Newsletter

Original image by John R. Neill for L. Frank Baum's Tik-tok of Oz (1914). Common Crawl made a submission to the UK Copyright and AI Consultation supporting a legal exception for text and data mining (TDM) while respecting creators’ rights.

Common Crawl - Blog - November 2017 Crawl Archive Now Available

The robots.txt files of 125,000 hosts referenced, in total, 2.5 billion sitemaps. this and a few more clusters caused the unexpectedly large size of the. latest host-level web graph.

Common Crawl - Blog - A Look Inside Our 210TB 2012 Web Corpus

The remainder are images, XML or code like JavaScript and cascading style sheets. View or download a pdf of Sebastian's paper here. If you want to dive deeper you can find the non-aggregated data at s3://commoncrawl/index2012 and. the code on GitHub.

Common Crawl - Blog - Host- and Domain-Level Web Graphs Feb/Mar/May 2020

The impact of this fix on the graph size is minimal: the recent crawl now includes 1 million nodes (0.1% of all nodes) which are not connected to any other node. Host-level graph.

Common Crawl - Blog - Web Data Commons Extraction Framework for the Distributed Processing of CC Data

The extracted graph had a size of less than 100GB zipped.

Common Crawl - Blog - Answers to Recent Community Questions

Five billion pages is a substantial corpus and, though we may expand the size in the near future, we are focused on quality over quantity.

Common Crawl - Blog - Now Available: Host- and Domain-Level Web Graphs

However, the May/June/July host-level graph has doubled its size in terms of edges and more than tripled in terms of nodes.

Common Crawl - Blog - Learn Hadoop and get a paper published

So what is the point of a dataset of this size? What value can someone extract from the full dataset? How does this value change with a 50% sample, a 10% sample, a 1% sample? For a particular problem, how should this sample be done?

Common Crawl - Blog - Submission to the UK’s Copyright and AI Consultation

Original image by John R. Neill for L. Frank Baum's Tik-tok of Oz (1914).

Common Crawl - Blog - Host- and Domain-Level Web Graphs Aug/Sept/Oct 2017

As compared to prior web graphs, two changes are caused by the large size of this host-level graph (5.1 billion hosts): The text dump of the graph is split into multiple files; there is no page rank calculation at this time.

Common Crawl - Privacy Policy

A web beacon, pixel or tag is a small, usually-transparent image placed on a web page that allows the operator of that image, which may be the operator of the website you visit or a third party, to read or write a Cookie.

Common Crawl - Blog - Analysis of the NCSU Library URLs in the Common Crawl Index

This is an image of Mary Travers singing live on stage. Looking in Google Analytics for this page as a landing page for referrals, Google is the top referrer.