Types inside web mining
Looking at both data mining and web mining, there’s one main difference. When data mining operates generally on the content, web mining uses also structure of the data:
- WEB CONTENT MINING operates on the content, most of the time it’s text (maybe that’s why WM is called also text mining)
- WEB LINKAGE MINING is getting information from the structure of sites.
- WEB USAGE MINING is getting information from logs – i.e. tracking user’s movement from one page to another
It gives a certain amout of possibilities that doesn’t count in usual data mining.