Web Mining Research:A Study

The massive information available on the web makes it a very prolific area of research using data mining techniques. The commercial potential of web is developing intense growth in the adoption and usage of web. The increase in usage of web is generating more content, structure and usage data day by day and thus the value of web mining is increasing. In this paper various web mining techniques have been studied. To understand these techniques in a better way this study focused on the algorithms used, machine learning methods and applications. The merits and demerits of these techniques have been situated. In addition to this the research gaps also have been determined.