Sampling the web : the development of a custom search tool for research
Research designed to study the Internet is beset with challenges. One of these challenges involves obtaining samples of Web pages. Methodologies used in previous studies may be categorized into random, purposeful, and purposeful random types of sampling. This paper contains an outline of these metho...
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| description | Research designed to study the Internet is beset with challenges. One of these challenges involves obtaining samples of Web pages. Methodologies used in previous studies may be categorized into random, purposeful, and purposeful random types of sampling. This paper contains an outline of these methodologies and information about the development of a custom sampling tool that may be used to obtain purposeful random samples of Web page links. The custom search application called Web Sampler works through the Google Web APIs service to collect a random sample of pages from search results returned from the Google index. Web Sampler is inexpensive to develop and may be easily customized for specialized search needs required by researchers who are investigating Web page content. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1526252021-09-08T20:10:25Z Sampling the web : the development of a custom search tool for research Snelson, Chareen Library and information science Research designed to study the Internet is beset with challenges. One of these challenges involves obtaining samples of Web pages. Methodologies used in previous studies may be categorized into random, purposeful, and purposeful random types of sampling. This paper contains an outline of these methodologies and information about the development of a custom sampling tool that may be used to obtain purposeful random samples of Web page links. The custom search application called Web Sampler works through the Google Web APIs service to collect a random sample of pages from search results returned from the Google index. Web Sampler is inexpensive to develop and may be easily customized for specialized search needs required by researchers who are investigating Web page content. Published version 2021-09-06T02:25:07Z 2021-09-06T02:25:07Z 2006 Journal Article Snelson, C. (2006). Sampling the web : the development of a custom search tool for research. Library and Information Science Research E-Journal, 16(1), 1-22. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LIBRES.2006.1.4 1058-6768 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152625 10.32655/LIBRES.2006.1.4 1 16 1 22 en Library and Information Science Research E-Journal © 2006 Chareen Snelson. All rights reserved. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Library and information science Snelson, Chareen Sampling the web : the development of a custom search tool for research |
| title | Sampling the web : the development of a custom search tool for research |
| title_full | Sampling the web : the development of a custom search tool for research |
| title_fullStr | Sampling the web : the development of a custom search tool for research |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sampling the web : the development of a custom search tool for research |
| title_short | Sampling the web : the development of a custom search tool for research |
| title_sort | sampling the web the development of a custom search tool for research |
| topic | Library and information science |
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