A Study of Web Mining

The hunt for knowledge has led to new discoveries and inventions. With the materialization of World Wide Web, it became a core for all these discoveries and inventions. Web browsers became a tool to make the information available at our finger tips. WWW stands for World Wide Web, and it is an advanced information retrieval system. As years passed World Wide Web became weighed down with information and it became hard to retrieve data according to the need. Web mining came as salvage for the above problem. Web content mining is a subdivision under web mining. This paper deals with a study of different techniques and pattern of content mining and the areas which has been influenced by content mining. The web contains structured, unstructured, semi structured and multimedia data. This survey focuses on how to apply content mining on the above data. It also points out how web content mining can be utilized in web usage mining.