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Learn Hadoop and get a paper published

Learn Hadoop and get a paper published

We're looking for students who want to try out the Apache Hadoop platform and get a technical report published.
Allison Domicone
Allison Domicone was formerly a Program and Policy Consultant to Common Crawl and previously worked for Creative Commons.
Data 2.0 Summit

Data 2.0 Summit

Next week a few members of the Common Crawl team are going the Data 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
Common Crawl Foundation
Common Crawl builds and maintains an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone.
Common Crawl's Advisory Board

Common Crawl's Advisory Board

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.
Allison Domicone
Allison Domicone was formerly a Program and Policy Consultant to Common Crawl and previously worked for Creative Commons.
Common Crawl on AWS Public Data Sets

Common Crawl on AWS Public Data Sets

Common Crawl is thrilled to announce that our data is now hosted on Amazon Web Services' Public Data Sets.
Common Crawl Foundation
Common Crawl builds and maintains an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone.
Web Data Commons

Web Data Commons

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.
Common Crawl Foundation
Common Crawl builds and maintains an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone.
SlideShare: Building a Scalable Web Crawler with Hadoop

SlideShare: Building a Scalable Web Crawler with Hadoop

Common Crawl on building an open Web-Scale crawl using Hadoop.
Common Crawl Foundation
Common Crawl builds and maintains an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone.
Video: Gil Elbaz at Web 2.0 Summit 2011

Video: Gil Elbaz at Web 2.0 Summit 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.
Common Crawl Foundation
Common Crawl builds and maintains an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone.
Video: This Week in Startups - Gil Elbaz and Nova Spivack

Video: This Week in Startups - Gil Elbaz and Nova Spivack

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.
Common Crawl Foundation
Common Crawl builds and maintains an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone.
Video Tutorial: MapReduce for the Masses

Video Tutorial: MapReduce for the Masses

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.
Common Crawl Foundation
Common Crawl builds and maintains an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone.
Common Crawl Enters A New Phase

Common Crawl Enters A New Phase

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.
Common Crawl Foundation
Common Crawl builds and maintains an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone.
Gil Elbaz and Nova Spivack on This Week in Startups

Gil Elbaz and Nova Spivack on This Week in Startups

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.
Allison Domicone
Allison Domicone was formerly a Program and Policy Consultant to Common Crawl and previously worked for Creative Commons.
MapReduce for the Masses: Zero to Hadoop in Five Minutes with Common Crawl

MapReduce for the Masses: Zero to Hadoop in Five Minutes with Common Crawl

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.
Common Crawl Foundation
Common Crawl builds and maintains an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone.
Answers to Recent Community Questions

Answers to Recent Community Questions

In this post we respond to the most common questions. Thanks for all the support and please keep the questions coming!
Common Crawl Foundation
Common Crawl builds and maintains an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone.
Common Crawl Discussion List

Common Crawl Discussion List

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.
Common Crawl Foundation
Common Crawl builds and maintains an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone.

Common Crawl Blog

New Crawl Data Available!

November 27, 2013

We are very please to announce that new crawl data is now available! The data was collected in 2013, contains approximately 2 billion web pages and is 102TB in size (uncompressed).

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Hyperlink Graph from Web Data Commons

November 13, 2013

The talented team at Web Data Commons recently extracted and analyzed the hyperlink graph within the Common Crawl 2012 corpus. Altogether, they found 128 billion hyperlinks connecting 3.5 billion pages.

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Startup Profile: SwiftKey’s Head Data Scientist on the Value of Common Crawl’s Open Data

August 14, 2013

Sebastian Spiegler is the head of the data team and SwiftKey and a volunteer at Common Crawl. Yesterday we posted Sebastian’s statistical analysis of the 2012 Common Crawl corpus. Today we are following it up with a great video featuring Sebastian talking about why crawl data is valuable, his research, and why open data is important.

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A Look Inside Our 210TB 2012 Web Corpus

August 13, 2013

Want to know more detail about what data is in the 2012 Common Crawl corpus without running a job? Now you can thanks to Sebastian Spiegler!

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Professor Jim Hendler Joins the Common Crawl Advisory Board!

March 22, 2013

We are extremely happy to announce that Professor Jim Hendler has joined the Common Crawl Advisory Board.  Professor Hendler is the Head of the Computer Science Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and also serves as the Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science at RPI’s Tetherless World Constellation.

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URL Search Tool!

March 5, 2013

A couple months ago we announced the creation of the Common Crawl URL Index and followed it up with a guest post by Jason Ronallo describing how he had used the URL Index. Today we are happy to announce a tool that makes it even easier for you to take advantage of the URL Index!

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The Winners of The Norvig Web Data Science Award

February 25, 2013

We are very excited to announce that the winners of the Norvig Web Data Science Award Lesley Wevers, Oliver Jundt, and Wanno Drijfhout from the University of Twente!

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Analysis of the NCSU Library URLs in the Common Crawl Index

January 16, 2013

Last week we announced the Common Crawl URL Index. The index has already proven useful to many people and we would like to share an interesting use of the index that was very well described in a great blog post by Jason Ronallo.

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Common Crawl URL Index

January 8, 2013

We are thrilled to announce that Common Crawl now has a URL index! Scott Robertson, founder of triv.io graciously donated his time and skills to creating this valuable tool.

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blekko donates search data to Common Crawl

December 17, 2012

We are very excited to announce that blekko is donating search data to Common Crawl! Founded in 2007, blekko has created a new type of search experience that enlists human editors in its efforts to eliminate spam and personalize search.

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The Norvig Web Data Science Award

November 15, 2012

We are very excited to announce the Norvig Web Data Science Award! Common Crawl and SARA created the award to encourage research in web data science.

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Towards Social Discovery - New Content Models; New Data; New Toolsets

October 30, 2012

This is a guest blog post by Matthew Berk, Founder of Lucky Oyster. Matthew has been on the front lines of search technology for the past decade.

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Winners of the Code Contest!

September 18, 2012

We’re very excited to announce the winners of the First Ever Common Crawl Code Contest! We were thrilled by the response to the contest and the many great entries. Several people let us know that they were not able to complete their project in time to submit to the contest. We’re currently working with them to finish the projects outside of the contest and we’ll be showcasing some of those projects in the near future!

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Common Crawl Code Contest Extended Through the Holiday Weekend

August 30, 2012

Do you have a project that you are working on for the Common Crawl Code Contest that is not quite ready? If so, you are not the only one. A few people have emailed us to let us know their code is almost ready but they are worried about the deadline, so we have decided to extend the deadline through the holiday weekend.

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TalentBin Adds Prizes To The Code Contest

August 14, 2012

The prize package for the Common Crawl Code Contest now includes three Nexus 7 tablets thanks to TalentBin!

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Amazon Web Services sponsoring $50 in credit to all contest entrants!

August 10, 2012

Did you know that every entry to the First Ever Common Crawl Code Contest gets $50 in Amazon Web Services (AWS) credits? If you're a developer interested in big datasets and learning new platforms like Hadoop, you truly have no reason not to try your hand at creating an entry to the code contest!

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Still time to participate in the Common Crawl code contest

August 7, 2012

There is still plenty of time left to participate in the Common Crawl code contest! The contest is accepting entries until August 30th, why not spend some time this week playing around with the Common Crawl corpus and then submit your work to the contest?

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Strata Conference + Hadoop World

August 3, 2012

This year's Strata Conference teams up with Hadoop World for what promises to be a powerhouse convening in NYC from October 23-25. Check out their full announcement below and secure your spot today.

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Mat Kelcey Joins The Common Crawl Advisory Board

August 1, 2012

We are excited to announce that Mat Kelcey has joined the Common Crawl Board of Advisors! Mat has been extremely helpful to Common Crawl over the last several months and we are very happy to have him as an official Advisor to the organization.

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Common Crawl's Brand Spanking New Video and First Ever Code Contest!

July 18, 2012

At Common Crawl we've been busy recently! After announcing the release of 2012 data and other enhancements, we are now excited to share with you this short video that explains why we here at Common Crawl are working hard to bring web crawl data to anyone who wants to use it.

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2012 Crawl Data Now Available

July 16, 2012

I am very happy to announce that Common Crawl has released 2012 crawl data as well as a number of significant enhancements to our example library and help pages.

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The Open Cloud Consortium’s Open Science Data Cloud

July 3, 2012

Common Crawl has started talking with the Open Cloud Consortium (OCC) about working together. If you haven’t already heard of the OCC, it is an awesome nonprofit organization managing and operating cloud computing infrastructure that supports scientific, environmental, medical and health care research.

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OSCON 2012

June 19, 2012

We're just one month away from one of the biggest and most exciting events of the year, O'Reilly's Open Source Convention (OSCON). This year's conference will be held July 16th-20th in Portland, Oregon.

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Learn Hadoop and get a paper published

May 9, 2012

We're looking for students who want to try out the Apache Hadoop platform and get a technical report published.

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Big Data Week: meetups in SF and around the world

April 13, 2012

Big Data Week aims to connect data enthusiasts, technologists, and professionals across the globe through a series of meet-ups. The idea is to build community among groups working on big data and to spur conversations about relevant topics ranging from technology to commercial use cases.

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