Questions about RefinedWeb coverage and older web data
Hi RefinedWeb team and community,
Thanks for creating and sharing RefinedWeb — it’s an awesome resource for web-scale text research!
I’m working on a project involving historical web data, and I’d love some advice:
Does RefinedWeb include any older snapshots of the web (e.g., pre-2008), or is it primarily focused on recent Common Crawl extractions?
Are there any suggested approaches or complementary datasets for covering 2008–2013 web content?
Have community members combined RefinedWeb with other archives (e.g., Common Crawl, Internet Archive) to reconstruct earlier web snapshots? If so, any best practices or tools you’d recommend for deduplication or integration?
Any tips, links, or experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!😀
Best,
Patrick