Web Content Mining Techniques and Tools

with the spectacularly and unpredictable growth of information available over the Internet, WWW has become a powerful platform for storage & retrieval of information. Due to the heterogeneity & unstructured nature of data on WWW, searching of information is becoming cumbersome & time consuming task. Web mining came as solution for the above problem. Web mining is the means of utilizing data mining methods to extract useful information from web. Web content mining is a sub division of web mining. In this paper, we first present the concepts of web mining, we then provide an overview of web mining techniques, and then we present an overview of different types of web content mining tools and conclude with the algorithms.