Focused Crawling Using Context Graphs
Summary: Introduces focused crawling via context graphs modeling link hierarchies and co-occurring content around relevant pages. Combines this model with search-engine reverse-crawling signals for improved credit assignment and substantially higher crawling efficiency. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. M. Diligenti (University of Siena)
- 2. F. M. Coetzee (Nippon Electric Company Research Institute)
- 3. S. Lawrence (Nippon Electric Company Research Institute)
- 4. C. L. Giles (Nippon Electric Company Research Institute)
- 5. M. Gori (University of Siena)
BibTeX Citation
@article{diligenti_vldb00,
title = {{Focused Crawling Using Context Graphs}},
author = {Diligenti, M. and Coetzee, F. M. and Lawrence, S. and Giles, C. L. and Gori, M.},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '00},
year = {2000}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 348 | Crawling the Hidden Web | 2001 | VLDB | 0.00020262145 |
| 997 | To Search or to Crawl? Towards a Query Optimizer for Text-Centric Tasks | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.00012633809 |
| 5,858 | RankMass Crawler: A Crawler with High Personalized PageRank Coverage Guarantee | 2007 | VLDB | 5.9682494e-05 |
| 8,338 | Accurate and Efficient Crawling for Relevant Websites | 2004 | VLDB | 5.352364e-05 |
| 8,498 | Sideway Value Algebra for Object-Relational Databases | 2002 | VLDB | 5.3297931e-05 |
| 10,964 | A Demo of Interactive Thematic Data Collection on the Live Web | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,346 | Distributed Hypertext Resource Discovery Through Examples | 1999 | VLDB | 7.3934136e-05 |
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