Research on web data mining concepts, techniques and applications

WWW is, by far, the enormous database in the world, holding humongous amount of data of various types that would be consumed by users for various needs. It contains priceless data for businesses, if mined effectively. Web mining is a process that targets to find useful information or knowledge from the Web page contents, hyperlink structure, and usage or sever logs of websites. Web data mining is divided into three major groups - Web Content mining, Web Structure mining and Web Usage mining. This survey paper reports the basic concepts of each type of web mining, techniques for data extraction or knowledge detection and uses of different types of web mining methods.