Book Review Mining the Web: Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data Soumen Chakrabarti. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 2003. 345 pp. $54.95. (ISBN: 1-55860-754-4.) After the invention of the Web many things in our lives (such as how we do research, communicate, entertain ourselves, and do personal finance) have changed. Simply, the Web has changed our lives. Perhaps, it even contributed to the world-wide obesity problem, especially among the youth. Like other technological inventions, it made our lives easier, lazier, and more enjoyable. About ten years ago, soon after the Web s birth, Web search engines were first by word of mouth. Soon, however, automated search engines became a world wide phenomenon, especially AltaVista at the beginning. I was pleasantly surprised by the amount and diversity of information made accessible by the Web search engines even in the mid 1990 s. The growth of the available Web pages is beyond most, if not all, people s imagination. The search engines enabled people to find information, facts, and references among these Web pages. The characteristics of the Web environment (too much of good and bad things; abundance, redundancy, and misrepresentation; too many pages satisfying typical user queries) make researchers
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