Overview: Weblog mining, privacy issues and application of Web Log mining

In this decade there is a nonlinear growth in the data available on the World Wide Web, with this growth there arises a need for finding and analyzing useful data available on the web. The behavior of webpage and how the users use the web can be found in the weblog. The process of extracting knowledge from weblog is called Web Log mining. This extracted knowledge can be used to enhance the quality of information being shared on the web. Web log are generally noisy and ambiguous, so data preprocessing is an very important step in Data mining. This paper gives overview on weblog mining using decision tree, privacy issues and a glimpse of various applications of web log mining.