RankMass Crawler: A Crawler with High Personalized PageRank Coverage Guarantee

Summary: RankMass Crawler derives crawling policies with provable personalized-PageRank coverage guarantees from trusted pages. It prioritizes important pages early, enabling principled stopping and efficient indexing, validated on 141M Web URLs. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: hb170d58f80adc8b3
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 5.9654785e-05
Overall Rank: 5,860 | 60.62%
DOI: 10.14778/1325851.1325859

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Junghoo Cho (University of California Los Angeles)
2. Uri Schonfeld (University of California Los Angeles)

BibTeX Citation

@article{cho_vldb07,
        title = {{RankMass Crawler: A Crawler with High Personalized PageRank Coverage Guarantee}},
        author = {Cho, Junghoo and Schonfeld, Uri},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '07},
        volume = {30},
        number = {2},
        pages = {375--386},
        doi = {10.14778/1325851.1325859},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1325851.1325859},
        year = {2007}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,861	Efficient Ad-hoc Search for Personalized PageRank	2013	SIGMOD	9.4839542e-05
12,824	SHARC: Framework for Quality-Conscious Web Archiving	2009	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
348	Crawling the Hidden Web	2001	VLDB	0.00020252678
1,266	Focused Crawling Using Context Graphs	2000	VLDB	0.00011267736
2,668	Combating Web Spam with TrustRank	2004	VLDB	8.1511061e-05
3,253	Computing PageRank in a Distributed Internet Search System	2004	VLDB	7.4894399e-05
8,341	Efficient and Decentralized PageRank Approximation in a Peer-to-Peer Web Search Network	2006	VLDB	5.3498337e-05
8,342	Accurate and Efficient Crawling for Relevant Websites	2004	VLDB	5.3498337e-05

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