Abstract:
The World Wide Web (WWW) is a rich source of
information and continues to expand in size. The
complexity at the WWW makes it difficult for data
mining. Before the Web, finding information meant
asking a friend or an expert, or buying/borrowing a
book. However, it is becoming a challenging task to
effectively and efficiently retrieve the required web
page /information on dynamic and heterogeneous web
documents. If we can efficiently use web content mining
techniques and tools, we can easily extract useful
information from various forms of web page content by
eliminating noisy information. This paper presents
different web content mining techniques such as
structured, unstructured, semi-structured and
multimedia and five tools that can collect the
appropriate information from websites that the user
requires. The focus of this paper is to bring to light the
value of Web Content Mining techniques and its tools
in virtual society.
