Twelve steps to running your Ruby code across five billion web pages
March 26, 2012
The following is a guest blog post by Pete Warden, a member of the Common Crawl Advisory Board. Pete is a British-born programmer living in San Francisco. After spending over a decade as a software engineer, including 5 years at Apple, he’s now focused on a career as a mad scientist.
Read More...Web Data Commons
March 22, 2012
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.
Read More...Common Crawl's Advisory Board
February 15, 2012
As part of our ongoing effort to grow Common Crawl into a truly useful and innovative tool, we recently formed an Advisory Board to guide us in our efforts. We have a stellar line-up of advisory board members who will lend their passion and expertise in numerous fields as we grow our vision.
Read More...Common Crawl on AWS Public Data Sets
January 23, 2012
Common Crawl is thrilled to announce that our data is now hosted on Amazon Web Services' Public Data Sets.
Read More...Video Tutorial: MapReduce for the Masses
January 19, 2012
Learn how you can harness the power of MapReduce data analysis against the Common Crawl dataset with nothing more than five minutes of your time, a bit of local configuration, and 25 cents.
Read More...Gil Elbaz and Nova Spivack on This Week in Startups
January 12, 2012
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. Underlying their conversation is an exploration of how Common Crawl's open crawl of the web is a powerful asset for educators, researchers, and entrepreneurs.
Read More...Video: This Week in Startups - Gil Elbaz and Nova Spivack
January 10, 2012
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.
Read More...MapReduce for the Masses: Zero to Hadoop in Five Minutes with Common Crawl
December 16, 2011
Common Crawl aims to change the big data game with our repository of over 40 terabytes of high-quality web crawl information into the Amazon cloud, the net total of 5 billion crawled pages.
Read More...Common Crawl Discussion List
November 29, 2011
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.
Read More...Answers to Recent Community Questions
November 16, 2011
In this post we respond to the most common questions. Thanks for all the support and please keep the questions coming!
Read More...Common Crawl Enters A New Phase
November 7, 2011
A little under four years ago, Gil Elbaz formed the Common Crawl Foundation. 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.
Read More...Video: Gil Elbaz at Web 2.0 Summit 2011
October 19, 2011
Hear Common Crawl founder discuss how data accessibility is crucial to increasing rates of innovation as well as give ideas on how to facilitate increased access to data.
Read More...SlideShare: Building a Scalable Web Crawler with Hadoop
October 27, 2010
Common Crawl on building an open Web-Scale crawl using Hadoop.
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