Web Mining Evolution & Comparative Study with Data Mining

Abstract

Web Technology is evolving very fast and Internet Users are growing much faster than estimated. The website users are using a wide range of websites leaving back a variety of information. This information must be used by the websites administrator to manipulate their websites according to the users of the websites. Aim of research in web mining is to develop a new technique for extracting and mining useful information or knowledge from web pages. Thus it?s a challenging task for automated discovery of targeted or unexpected knowledge due to heterogeneity and lack of structure of web data. In this paper we will discuss about the evolution of web mining. This paper will contain detailed description about the other parts of web mining. Paper also analyse data mining and made a comparison between data mining and web mining on the basis of various parameters.