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Radley Balko | July 2011
A rogue’s gallery of misbehaving prosecutors, plus three worth praising
Web wide crawl with initial seedlist and crawler configuration from March 2011. This uses the new HQ software for distributed crawling by Kenji Nagahashi.
What’s in the data set:
Crawl start date: 09 March, 2011
Crawl end date: 23 December, 2011
Number of captures: 2,713,676,341
Number of unique URLs: 2,273,840,159
Number of hosts: 29,032,069
The seed list for this crawl was a list of Alexa’s top 1 million web sites, retrieved close to the crawl start date. We used Heritrix (3.1.1-SNAPSHOT) crawler software and respected robots.txt directives. The scope of the crawl was not limited except for a few manually excluded sites.
However this was a somewhat experimental crawl for us, as we were using newly minted software to feed URLs to the crawlers, and we know there were some operational issues with it. For example, in many cases we may not have crawled all of the embedded and linked objects in a page since the URLs for these resources were added into queues that quickly grew bigger than the intended size of the crawl (and therefore we never got to them). We also included repeated crawls of some Argentinian government sites, so looking at results by country will be somewhat skewed.
We have made many changes to how we do these wide crawls since this particular example, but we wanted to make the data available “warts and all” for people to experiment with. We have also done some further analysis of the content.
If you would like access to this set of crawl data, please contact us at info at archive dot org and let us know who you are and what you’re hoping to do with it. We may not be able to say “yes” to all requests, since we’re just figuring out whether this is a good idea, but everyone will be considered.

If Congress and the president can't agree on spending cuts, they should consider ending Fannie and Freddie in exchange for a short-term increase in the debt ceiling.
A rogue’s gallery of misbehaving prosecutors, plus three worth praising
Same-sex marriage existed long before it was legalized.
Why the new cigarette warning labels won't stop people from smoking
Separating economic myths from economic truths
Did the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act destroy jobs or create them?
The British Board of Film Classification freaks out over The Human Centipede II
State governments embrace a dangerous employment verification database.
How California prison guards became the country’s most powerful union
Why Rick Perry could be a serious contender for the White House
Public defenders are too overloaded to protect the rights of the accused.
What’s wrong with the GOP criticizing Obama’s undeclared war?
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The peril of vague criminal statutes
What Obama's undeclared war in Libya reveals about the corrupting effects of power
Humanitarian concerns are driving America's involvement in Libya
Why is the government doing so little to end sexual assault in prisons?
Did incarceration reduce the crime rate, or did it get in the way?
If Congress and the president can't agree on spending cuts, they should consider ending Fannie and Freddie in exchange for a short-term increase in the debt ceiling.
You can’t say no to federal funds for L.A.’s empty trains, fake transit hubs, and unfixed potholes.
Will the Al Qaeda leader's death impact the unfolding political battles over defense spending and the debt ceiling?
Freedom leads to prosperity.
Separating economic myths from economic truths
Did the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act destroy jobs or create them?
Bernanke's sophisticated surgical tools keep making the patient worse
Separating economic myths from economic truths
Can Medicare save money by giving patients cash?
The Bush administration's worst policies live on in Obama's White House.
Counting the problems with the president's health care plan
A rebuttal to The New Republic's latest prescription for health care reform
What the libertarian Republican brings to the 2012 race
Why Rick Perry could be a serious contender for the White House
Special interests trump science in the debate over transgenic salmon.
Is it too late to get America out of debt? Not if we stop spending and follow the examples set by Puerto Rico and Canada.
Forty years after Nixon declared war on drugs, it's time to give peace a chance.
Waging the war on drugs in Latin America is a gold mine for contractors, a waste for taxpayers
The War on Drugs has failed. Let's try something else.
...and other stories of what happens when the government plays with your food.
Special interests trump science in the debate over transgenic salmon.
Boeing gets hauled before the National Labor Relations Board for opening a new plant in a business-friendly state
How occupational licensing laws hurt the poor

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