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.
wow.. thats a pretty great place…
The water is so incredibly blue. That’s awesome.
I’m curious what gallery plugin you are using? I tried using the built in WordPress one but when I click on an image, it doesn’t go to the next image like on yours. Any information would be appreciated!
Hey matt although pictures can say a million words, we still like the words. No blog post on zour travels in Greece, been thinking about going there for a while now but not sure if its worth it.
@ phototristian, Matt is using the new gallery feature within wordpress as he explained when he changed over his theme. How he does it is actually not that difficult if you know your php, basically the posts are attached to a category, and that category is then called to do something else within the index.php of your theme. I attempted it on my blog and the result wasnt to far off but maybe this and this thread will help you out with how to do it.
Beautiful photos, such visual eye candy.
realllly…..great place…wish one day i’ll be there..Thanks matt 4 the pics…:)
@Niel thanks for the tip