Core Concepts

Understand the key ideas behind Content Chimera — how it thinks about websites, organizes data, and helps you make decisions at scale.

• Underlying Principles
  • We need a forest and trees approach.
  • Decide. Don’t Inspect.
  • Speed to insight is essential.
  • Many “surprises” shouldn’t be.
  • Excel (or other tool) plumbing work is not desirable.
• Extents: Sites, Sitegroups, and Clients
  • Grouping Sites
  • Using Extents in Content Chimera
• The Crawling Pipeline
  • Starting a Crawl
  • The Three Pipeline Steps
  • Crawl Statuses
  • Watching Crawls Live
  • Encountered Domains
• Deduplicating URLs
  • Crawling vs. Deduplicating
• Filters
  • Filter conditions
  • Where filters are used
  • Shared filters
• Expression Functions
  • Syntax Guidelines
  • Choosing the right function
  • Comparison of function types
  • Simple Comparison Functions
  • Text Processing Functions
  • Mathematical Functions
  • Logical Functions
  • Mapping Functions