Internet monitoring

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Internet monitoring (Eng. Internet monitoring service) is a set of operations for searching, analyzing, classifying, clustering information from the Internet on topics of interest to the user. Thus, the concept of "Internet monitoring" refers to the monitoring of Internet resources, in contrast to the concept of "network monitoring", which refers to the tasks of network management. Internet monitoring allows you to track and monitor the development of an event or topic. For some time now, monitoring of Internet resources has become one of the key components of the activities of marketing services, news agencies and news services.

Basic methods and tools for monitoring Internet resources

The following basic methods and tools are available:
- processing of selected sites in manual mode
- search engines and directories
- news subscription (in particular RSS)
- Specialized services and software products for Internet monitoring.

Handmade

Manual work based on the regular check of several sites selected on a given topic is the easiest and alas, not the most effective way. One person is able to process no more than several hundred pages during the day if you work without rest and distraction to other classes. In addition, it takes time to crawl the necessary pages and save them in dedicated directories.

Search engines and directories

Search engines and directories - seemingly also an affordable and easy way. But it should be remembered that any, even the most popular, search engines cover only part of the web space. The time allotted for indexing new information can range from several hours to several days. For the vast majority of business tasks, this is an unacceptably long delay time. In addition, search engines practically do not have archives of documents that were once posted on the Internet, but then deleted. Search engines rarely allow you to determine the "novelty" of a document. Finally, open search engines rarely index electronic versions of newspapers, magazines, and television shows that are located on the lower levels of their sites. Therefore, most of the informative documents are often skipped. Using web directories leads to the same problems that are associated with manual processing of information.

News Subscriptions

News subscriptions are able to partially solve the problem of relevance and novelty of the information that arrives. But, as a rule, articles are automatically provided, they are only short cuts from pages of one or two output sentences. And to get the full information you need to go to the source page, at best overloaded with advertising and banners, and at worst - simply has nothing to do with clipping information. The range of articles is also limited: this is mainly news. Subject reviews, reports, analyzes, interviews rarely make it to the subscription list.

Specialized services and software products

The best solution and tool for monitoring the Internet at present is specialized solutions and software products (Internet resource monitoring systems).

The advantages of monitoring systems of Internet resources in comparison with traditional search engines

- Efficiency - the databases of such systems are updated every 10-20 minutes, sources are scanned from the Internet as they are updated, if it can be measured in days during the indexing period of traditional search engines.
- Availability of the retrospective fund - even if the information is deleted from the source’s site, it is stored in the information storage.
- The presence of analytical tools - the user can in real time not only receive search results, but also generate digests, build storylines, analyze the dynamics of the appearance of concepts like that.
- Possibility of duplicate selection - automatic labeling of news information identical in content.
- Availability of tools for multi-level refinement of the request.

The advantages of monitoring systems of Internet resources in comparison with news sites

- Coverage of sources - the user has access to news on topics of interest to him, at the same time from a large number of websites, including those favorites that he is used to browsing daily.
- The principle of "one hand" - the user of the monitoring system has access to information from many websites from one intuitive interface.
- Search capabilities - news sites, unlike monitoring systems, do not always have developed search capabilities.
- Availability of a retrospective fund.

Professional use of the capabilities of the monitoring system of Internet resources provides a qualitatively new opportunity for information and analytical work.
Source: https://life-prog.ru/view_internet.php?id=41

 

[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

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