CB-Cloudle and cloud crawlers

Cloud services emerge as one of the most important parts for a company. Amazon, Rackspace, Google, Microsoft, to name a few, all fight to gain a foothold as cloud services providers. CB-Cloudle, a search engine aiming to discover the available options of cloud services and to suggest the most appropriate alternatives, is presented here to meet with the end users' needs. In this work, this software platform CB-Cloudle specialised in searching for cloud services, and an automated cloud services crawler is also implemented. A k-means clustering algorithm with centroids was utilised to improve the search effectiveness and efficiency. This k-means clustering algorithm was introduced to discover the groups of similar cloud service entries, using a new similarity matrix to calculate the distance between cloud service entries.