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The Promise of Open Government Data & Where We Go Next. One of the biggest boons for the Open Data movement in recent years has been the enthusiastic support from all levels of government for releasing more, and higher quality, datasets to the public.…

Common Crawl builds and maintains an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone. We are extremely happy to announce that Professor Jim Hendler has joined the Common Crawl Advisory Board.…

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 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.…

Startup Profile: SwiftKey’s Head Data Scientist on the Value of Common Crawl’s Open Data. Sebastian Spiegler is the head of the data team and SwiftKey and a volunteer at Common Crawl.…

February 20, 2015. 5 Good Reads in Big Open Data: Feb 20 2015. A thriving ecosystem is the key for real viability of any technology.…

February 6, 2015. 5 Good Reads in Big Open Data: Feb 6 2015.…

March 13, 2015. 5 Good Reads in Big Open Data: March 13 2015. Jürgen Schmidhuber- Ask Me Anything - via Reddit: Jürgen has pioneered self-improving general problem solvers and Deep Learning Neural Networks for decades.…

March 26, 2015. 5 Good Reads in Big Open Data: March 26 2015.…

February 13, 2015. 5 Good Reads in Big Open Data: Feb 13 2015. What does it mean for the Open Web if users don't know they're on the internet? Via QUARTZ: “This is more than a matter of semantics.…

March 20, 2015. 5 Good Reads in Big Open Data: March 20 2015.…

February 27, 2015. 5 Good Reads in Big Open Data: February 27 2015.…

March 6, 2015. 5 Good Reads in Big Open Data: March 6 2015. 2015: What do you think about Machines that think?…

Introducing CloudFront as a new way to access Common Crawl data as part of Amazon Web Services’ registry of open data. Ten years ago(!) Common Crawl joined AWS’s Open Data Sponsorships program, hosted on S3, with free access to everyone.…

White House Briefing on Open Data’s Role in Technology.…

Small startups or even individuals can now access high quality crawl data that was previously only available to large search engine corporations.…

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

He was driven by a desire to ensure a truly open web. He knew that decreasing storage and bandwidth costs, along with the increasing ease of crunching big data, made building and maintaining an open repository of web crawl data feasible.…

He mainly develops in Ruby and is interested in open data and cloud computing. This guest post describes his open data project and why he built it. Ross Fairbanks. Ross Fairbanks is a software developer based in Barcelona. What is WikiReverse?…

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.…

Join us and help build a more open and accessible web for everyone. We’re always looking for talented, passionate individuals who want to make a difference.…

We have started a Common Crawl discussion list to enable discussions and encourage collaboration between the community of coders, hackers, data scientists, developers and organizations interested in working with open web crawl data.…

Glenn Otis Brown. brings additional legal expertise as well as a long history of working at the forefront of tech and the open web, including currently serving as Director of Business Development for Twitter and on the board of Creative Commons.…

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.…

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

New Crawl Data Available! We are very please to announce that new crawl data is now available! The data was collected in 2013, contains approximately 2 billion web pages and is 102TB in size (uncompressed). Common Crawl Foundation.…

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.…

Read our submission to the UK government's Copyright and AI consultation, supporting a legal exception for text and data mining (TDM) while respecting creators’ rights. Common Crawl Foundation.…

April 2014 Crawl Data Available. The April crawl of 2014 is now available! The new dataset is over 183TB in size containing approximately 2.6 billion webpages. Stephen Merity.…

August 2014 Crawl Data Available. The August crawl of 2014 is now available! The new dataset is over 200TB in size containing approximately 2.8 billion webpages. Stephen Merity.…

July 16, 2012. 2012 Crawl Data Now Available. I am very happy to announce that Common Crawl has released 2012 crawl data as well as a number of significant enhancements to our example library and help pages. Common Crawl Foundation.…

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

July 2014 Crawl Data Available. The July crawl of 2014 is now available! The new dataset is over 266TB in size containing approximately 3.6 billion webpages. Stephen Merity.…

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.…

March 2014 Crawl Data Now Available. The March crawl of 2014 is now available! The new dataset contains approximately 2.8 billion webpages and is about 223TB in size. Common Crawl Foundation.…

Centipede: Analyzing web crawl data for context of a location. 2013 Open Analytics Meetup - Mortar. Open Analytics. A tutorial on democratizing data development, references Common Crawl. London Hug: Common Crawl an Open Repository of Web Data. Lisa Green.…

This month members from the Common Crawl Foundation attended the AI_dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit in Paris, where discussions focused on AI advancements, ethics, and Open Source solutions. Common Crawl Foundation.…

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.…

Winter 2013 Crawl Data Now Available. The second crawl of 2013 is now available! In late November, we published the data from the first crawl of 2013.…

Common Crawl on AWS Public Data Sets. Common Crawl is thrilled to announce that our data is now hosted on Amazon Web Services' Public Data Sets. Common Crawl Foundation.…

Providing Authenticity & Data Provenance for Common Crawl Using Blockchain: Our Work with Constellation Network.…

Common Crawl has revolutionized access to web data, providing an open repository that anyone can use.…

Lisa is motivated by a strong belief in the power of open systems to drive innovation in education, arts and research. She has worked in the areas of Open Access publishing, Open Science, Open Data, copyright, digital rights and policy.…

AI and the Right to Learn on an Open Internet. Recent Research Using Common Crawl Data. Updates to Our Data Products – Help Wanted! Volunteer for Common Crawl! Common Crawl Celebrates Our 100th Crawl since 2008.…

December 17, 2012. blekko donates search data to Common Crawl. We are very excited to announce that blekko is donating search data to Common Crawl!…

Now in its second year in New York, the O’Reilly Strata Conference explores the changes brought to technology and business by big data, data science, and pervasive computing.…

People’s Choice: French Open Data. Another very popular entry, this work maps the ecosphere of French open data in order to identify the players, their importance, and their relationship.…

After announcing the release of 2012 data and other enhancements, we are now excited to share with you this short video that explains why we here at Common Crawl are working hard to bring web crawl data to anyone who wants to use it. Allison Domicone.…

Common Crawl is a non-profit foundation founded with the goal of democratizing access to web information by producing and maintaining an open repository of web crawl data that is universally accessible and analyzable by anyone.…

Big data has the potential to change the world. The talent exists and the tools are already there. What’s lacking is access to data.…

Common Crawl builds and maintains an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone. It was wonderful to see our first blog post and the. great piece. by.…

Common Crawl on building an open Web-Scale crawl using Hadoop. Common Crawl Foundation. Common Crawl builds and maintains an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone. The Data. Overview. Web Graphs. Latest Crawl.…

Our first attempt was to take the top scoring word from the list of unranked correction suggestions provided by Hunspell, an open-source spell checking library. We calculated each suggestion’s score as word frequency from.…

We're just one month away from one of the biggest and most exciting events of the year, O'Reilly's Open Source Convention (OSCON). This year's conference will be held July 16th-20th in Portland, Oregon. Allison Domicone.…

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.…

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.…

Pedro’s research has mainly focused on how data quality impacts ML models’ performance and how to improve these models through data-driven approaches.…

This month Common Crawl Foundation members had the privilege of attending 5th International Open Search Symposium at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Thom Vaughan. Thom is Principal Technologist at the Common Crawl Foundation.…

Stephen Merity is an independent AI researcher, who is passionate about machine learning, open data, and teaching computer science. The crawl archive for January 2015 is now available!…

Open Job Positions. Web Languages Project. We have launched the Web Languages project, a volunteer effort with the goal of improving our crawling by making a human-curated list of important non-English websites.…