This document discusses web structure mining and related concepts. It defines web mining as applying data mining techniques to discover patterns from the web using web content, structure, and usage data. Web structure mining analyzes the hyperlinks between pages to discover useful information. Key aspects covered include the bow-tie model of the web graph, measures of in-degree and out-degree, Google's PageRank algorithm, the HITS algorithm for identifying hub and authority pages, and using link structure for applications like ranking pages and finding related information.
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