Common Crawl

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Download the entire web to kick-start a data science empire.

Q Is this some new swimming stroke that's all the rage?

A Is that really the best guess you can come up with? The Common Crawl project [1] scrapes the web, sucking up as much information as possible, and makes this data available for anyone who wants to use it. Data is released approximately every month and goes back to 2007.

Q They scrape the web for pages that are accessible to the public and make this data available to the public? What exactly is this meant to achieve?

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