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Video: This Week in Startups - Gil Elbaz and Nova Spivack. Nova and Gil, in discussion with host Jason Calacanis, explore in depth what Common Crawl is all about and how it fits into the larger picture of online search and indexing.…

Gil Elbaz and Nova Spivack on This Week in Startups. Nova and Gil, in discussion with host Jason Calacanis, explore in depth what Common Crawl is all about and how it fits into the larger picture of online search and indexing.…

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.…

Big Data Week: meetups in SF and around the world. Big Data Week aims to connect data enthusiasts, technologists, and professionals across the globe through a series of meet-ups.…

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

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.…

Still time to participate in the Common Crawl code contest. There is still plenty of time left to participate in the Common Crawl code contest! …

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.…

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.…

Last week in Paris, at the AI Action Summit, a coalition of major technology companies and foundations announced the launch of ROOST: Robust Online Open Safety Tools. Thom Vaughan. Thom is Principal Technologist at the Common Crawl Foundation.…

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

We're excited to share an update on some of our recent projects and initiatives in this newsletter! Common Crawl Foundation. Common Crawl builds and maintains an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone.…

Before joining Common Crawl full-time in 2023, Greg was a member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, working at the Center for Astrophysics - Harvard & Smithsonian. He has also contributed to the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive.…

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.…

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

Analysis of the NCSU Library URLs in the Common Crawl Index. Note: this post has been marked as obsolete. Last week we announced the Common Crawl URL Index.…

In the face of that growth, policymakers around the world are examining how copyright laws can facilitate text and data mining in general and AI training in particular in order to serve the public interest.…

The first iteration is the pre–crawl seed WARC files for October (Week 40 of 2023, ~134.0 TiB) and the second iteration is for December (Week 50 of 2023, ~1008 GiB).…

She advises early stage startups on design, marketing, and go-to-market. Joy is also an artist and published author. She holds a bachelor’s from Harvard where she studied Environmental Science, Architecture, and Economics.…

In December we introduced an. annotation campaign for Language Identification. (LID or LangID) that we will conduct in collaboration with. MLCommons.…

Pete Warden is CEO at Useful Sensors, was previously technical lead of the TensorFlow Micro team at Google, and founder of Jetpac, a deep learning technology startup acquired by Google in 2014.…

Missing content_truncated flag in URL indexes. The flag in our URL indexes (CDX and columnar) that indicates whether or not a WARC record payload was truncated was added in CC-MAIN-2019-47.…

This is a guest blog post by Ross Fairbanks, a software developer based in Barcelona. 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.…

Redundant extra line in response records. Originally reported by. Greg Lindahl. The WARC files of the August 2018 crawl contain a redundant empty line between the HTTP headers and the payload. of WARC response records.…

Erroneous title field in WAT records. Originally reported by. Robert Waksmunski. The "Title" extracted in WAT records to the JSON path `.…

Charset Detection Bug in WET Records. Originally reported by. Javier de la Rosa. The charset detection required to properly transform non-UTF-8 HTML pages in WARC files into WET records didn't work before November 2016 due to a bug in.…

No truncation indicator in WARC records. Originally reported by. Henry Thompson. Due to. an issue. with our crawler, not all truncations were indicated correctly.…

Note that this one is a folder, not a single file, and it will read whichever files are in that bucket below that location.…

Stephen Burns is an accomplished marketing leader with a comprehensive background in digital and event marketing. Last week, members of the Common Crawl Foundation team—Chris, Greg, Jason, Rich, Sam, Stephen, and Wayne—attended the.…

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.…

Our datasets have become very popular over time, with downloads doubling every 6 months for several years in a row. This post details some steps to take if you are impacted by performance issues. Greg Lindahl.…

Note: this post has been marked as obsolete. We are thrilled to announce that Common Crawl now has a URL index! Scott Robertson, founder of triv.io graciously donated his time and skills to creating this valuable tool. Scott Robertson.…

We produced this graph, and intend to produce similar graphs going forward, because the Common Crawl community has expressed a strong interest in using Common Crawl data for graph processing, particularly with respect to: web graph and page rankings. produced…

July 28, 2018. 3.25 Billion Pages Crawled in July 2018. The crawl archive for July 2018 is now available! The archive contains 3.25 billion web pages and 255 TiB of uncompressed content, crawled between July 15th and 23th. Sebastian Nagel.…

This is a particularly relevant example in the context of AI.…

This democratization of data allows smaller entities to compete with larger organizations. While the focus of this consultation is AI, it is important to underscore that our data has been essential to driving progress in a wide range of areas.…

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.…

Earlier this month, the Common Crawl Foundation had the privilege of participating in a groundbreaking workshop hosted by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) in Washington DC. Common Crawl Foundation.…

In our columnar index for this crawl, the `. content_mime_type. ` is missing and `. fetch_status. ` is always -1. In the cdx index (columnar: `. content_mime_type. `), fields `. mime. ` and `. status. ` are missing. Affected Crawls. The Data. Overview.…

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.…

In this post we respond to the most common questions. Thanks for all the support and please keep the questions coming! Common Crawl Foundation.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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. Thom is Principal Technologist at the Common Crawl Foundation.…

Index to WARC Files and URLs in Columnar Format. We're happy to announce the release of an index to WARC files and URLs in a columnar format.…

Here's a look at how our presence in academic citations has evolved: This graph shows our citation count in Google Scholar from 2012 to 2023. More information on how this is collected can be found in. this GitHub repository.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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

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.…

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.…

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.…

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

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