Machine learning example- determine if a website is business or personal

Question

I have a machine learning problem. I am given a long list of domains and I have to figure out which are ecommerce websites and which are personal websites. It is kind of a difficult problem because I do not have any training data to work with. I have come up with a couple ideas:

Go through a couple hundred of these websites manually to tell if they are business or personal and develop a training set this way (Long and boring!).
Crawl these websites and search for some keywords eg. "Buy Now", "Price", "Credit Card". etc.

Does anybody have any other approaches?

Thanks

I would think crawling is the right way to go, but I would suggest looking for sites with links such as "Locations", "Contact Us" rather than simply keywords. — Jordan, Aug 22 '13 at 20:38

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 22 '13 at 20:58

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You could adaptively modify your keyword sets: As you crawl around, a word that correlates highly with existing keywords can be added to the list. Peter p.s. I would add this as a comment but I don't have enough reputation points...

answered Aug 22 '13 at 20:58

Peter

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Well lets try to get you there ;) +1 – Jordan Aug 22 '13 at 21:06

Machine learning example- determine if a website is business or personal

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