Web wide crawl with initial seedlist and crawler configuration from March 2011. This uses the new HQ software for distributed crawling by Kenji Nagahashi.
What’s in the data set:
Crawl start date: 09 March, 2011
Crawl end date: 23 December, 2011
Number of captures: 2,713,676,341
Number of unique URLs: 2,273,840,159
Number of hosts: 29,032,069
The seed list for this crawl was a list of Alexa’s top 1 million web sites, retrieved close to the crawl start date. We used Heritrix (3.1.1-SNAPSHOT) crawler software and respected robots.txt directives. The scope of the crawl was not limited except for a few manually excluded sites.
However this was a somewhat experimental crawl for us, as we were using newly minted software to feed URLs to the crawlers, and we know there were some operational issues with it. For example, in many cases we may not have crawled all of the embedded and linked objects in a page since the URLs for these resources were added into queues that quickly grew bigger than the intended size of the crawl (and therefore we never got to them). We also included repeated crawls of some Argentinian government sites, so looking at results by country will be somewhat skewed.
We have made many changes to how we do these wide crawls since this particular example, but we wanted to make the data available “warts and all” for people to experiment with. We have also done some further analysis of the content.
If you would like access to this set of crawl data, please contact us at info at archive dot org and let us know who you are and what you’re hoping to do with it. We may not be able to say “yes” to all requests, since we’re just figuring out whether this is a good idea, but everyone will be considered.
True.
They put all their eggs in one basket with the first album. But, they were corn-fed, free range eggs without doubt.
Yeah I Was Disappointed With The Latest
Even the double album on spotify there were only about 4 tracks I liked they seem to have gone in a similar way to Franz Ferdinand shame really
Ohhhhhh nooooooo
I loved their debut, rather disappointed with the second, rather sad the third seems to be even more so. Shame.
Remember them like this...
and...
If they never do anything memorable ever again, they can rest easy. *What* a debut...
Oh, indeed
That first album is sooooo good (and I think it was a Jude Rogers review in the Word that brought it to my attention)
diminishing
returns, innit? See also about 90% of bands who's first album did well in the last decade: Thrills, Fratellis, Keane, Kaisers, View, Guillemots, - even Duffy - when Adele's latest album went stellar, I wondered when Duffy would release her sophomore (ahem) platter - turned out she did, last year, it stiffed, she's considering a hiatus.
Don't forget The Delays. Stunning debut, then..
I always thought
the would fill the large Del Amitri sized hole in my musical life after the first album which I played till the grooves went flat, figuratively speaking. They filled my little world right up, right up
All the above..
The set the bar just a little too high for themselves. A great shame.
They're still fantastic live, though.