Web Analytical Engine in the Big Data Era

Abstract

Web search engines can only return a list of Web documents (the so-called ten blue links),whereas users may need high-order knowledge that is contained within the Web documents.The demand of analytical services atop the Web is becoming stronger with the rapid development of the internet and the increase of big Web data.The concept of“Web Analytical Engine”,which aims to provide analytical service atop the huge amount of Web documents,was introduced.A simple infrastructure was described and the key research problems for building such an engine were discussed.

Keywords

• big Web data;analytical engine;data sensing and gathering