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The study of a national Web graph is challenging and can provide insight into social phenomena specific to a country. However, because there is no country border in the Web, deciding whether a web page belongs to that country or not is difficult. In this paper we aim at studying the characteristics of the Thai Web graph. We first address the challenge of gathering Thailand-related web pages from the borderless Web by proposing a set of criteria for defining Thailand-related web pages. Three Thai web snapshots have been collected during July 2004 (18M web pages), January 2007 (550K web pages), and May 2007 (1.4M web pages) respectively. We then analyze and report various statistical properties related to connectivity of the associated Thai Web graphs.
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Somboonviwat, K., Suzuki, S., Kitsuregawa, M. (2008). Connectivity of the Thai Web Graph. In: Zhang, Y., Yu, G., Bertino, E., Xu, G. (eds) Progress in WWW Research and Development. APWeb 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4976. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78849-2_61
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