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Internet research is the practice of using data from the Internet, especially free information on the World Wide Web and Internet-based resources (like online forums and social media), in research. Internet research has had a profound impact on the way ideas are formed and knowledge is created.
They are also referred to as Internet research, [1] Internet science [2] or iScience, or Web-based methods. [3] Many of these online research methods are related to existing research methodologies but re-invent and re-imagine them in the light of new technologies and conditions associated with the internet. The field is relatively new and evolving.
Early online content analysts often specified a ‘Web site’ as a context unit, without a clear definition of what they meant. [2] Researchers recommend clearly and consistently defining what a ‘web page’ consists of, or reducing the size of the context unit to a feature on a website.
PageRank (PR) is an algorithm used by Google Search to rank web pages in their search engine results. It is named after both the term "web page" and co-founder Larry Page. PageRank is a way of measuring the importance of website pages. According to Google:
Thematic web collections of Canadiana research interest have been curated as an ongoing program activity since 2009. Web Information Collection and Preservation - WICP (Chinese Web Archive) [30].GOV.CN Y Harvest of the web pages about the events that have great influence on the society, economy and so on, and the sites in 'gov.cn' domain.
The web browser then initiates a series of background communication messages to fetch and display the requested page. In the 1990s, using a browser to view web pages—and to move from one web page to another through hyperlinks—came to be known as 'browsing,' 'web surfing' (after channel surfing), or 'navigating the Web'. Early studies of ...
For example, the results page behind a web form can lie in the Deep Web if crawlers cannot follow a link to the results page. Crawler traps (e.g., calendars) may cause a crawler to download an infinite number of pages, so crawlers are usually configured to limit the number of dynamic pages they crawl.
A web-based experiment or Internet-based experiment is an experiment that is conducted over the Internet.In such experiments, the Internet is either "a medium through which to target larger and more diverse samples with reduced administrative and financial costs" or "a field of social science research in its own right."