International Journal of Computer Science Trends and Technology (IJCST) – Volume 7 Issue 3, May - Jun 2019 ISSN: 2347-8578 www.ijcstjournal.org Page 37 A Review on Web Content Filtering, Its Technique and Prospects Ankur Baishya, Dr. Sangeeta Kakoty Department Of Computer Science and Engineering Assam Down Town University, Guwahati Assam - India ABSTRACT Technological advancement increases the uses of Internet access and also web access. As the web access is increases, the vulnerability point in an organization, institution in any places is also increases which may affect the productivity and performance level of the organization. Many times it seen that the ways some places use the Internet is very much objectionable for others. As a result the whole network may not be fully utilized. In order to screen out the unwanted information from the access, content filtering technique is developed. Till today, lots of different filtering techniques are developed and developing by using different approaches, knowledge and technologies, but not fully able to protect the web content. This paper provides an inclusive survey of all major approaches, tasks and processes involved in the web content filtering and trying to find out a better technique to solve the above mentioned problem for the web access. Keywords :— Web access, Content Filtering, Filtering Technique, Web protection. I. INTRODUCTION In our day to day life internet is widely used in almost everywhere such as home, corporate sector, academic environment etc. But it has seen that the network is not properly utilized. Most of the time people are seen to be busy in surfing other unwanted sites with unwanted information, especially the young aged students. Because of this web content filtering become more important in our society so that we can restrict few sites or information up to some extent. It has high demand now-a-days and it become an important research areas in the internet technology. The main reason is to proper utilization of network and also to overcome from the network junk. According to R.Ramli there is scant need to justify the requirement of the Internet and the World Wide Web (www) in today’s education and corporate setup. The impact of the information revolution is double edged. Now a day internet has become a crucial part of our modern life. It making our life smooth and easy, on the other hand people are concerned about its dark side especially to younger generations [1]. If these problems will increase day by day then it will be a big challenge for us to control these types of issues. At present scenario, there is no such type of automatic blocking controlling application developed and therefore results are reduced productivity, misuse of network resources and legal issues etc. In order to overcome these types of issues, we propose a new model with integration of Expert Filtering technology in content base domain area and an effective result towards our coming generation. II. WEB CONTENT FILTERING Web content is the visual and textual content which is use on a websites. It may include text, sounds, videos, animations and images. There are basically two types of web content. One is Textual web content and another is Multimedia web content. The textual web contents are those kinds of text or documents which are written for the web or internet. The other type of Web content is multimedia web content that includes images, video, animation sound etc. along with the content. Due to the growth of traffic, the lack of central management on the Internet, and to prevent people from seeing offensive or inappropriate material on the internet. Some software’s are use to block the certain sites. This kind of activities has been declared “Web Filters”. Web Filters are designed to improve the security and productivity of a network, but as with anything else, it must be implemented correctly to work properly [2]. Content filtering is a technique using in a program or software to prevent certain types of things which may be harmful to access. In present scenario basically two common items to be filter, which are websites and emails. Generally content filtering works by matching strings of characters. We can say that it is a part of Internet firewalls. Generally content filtering is use in security purpose. It helps to decide which contents are acceptable for access and which are not. According to V.K.T.Karthikeyan web content Filtering is a firewall to block that kind of websites or web pages which are harmful or objectionable. Web Content filtering offers us various services, those are Web filtering, the screening of Web sites or pages and e-mail filtering. Some popular filtering techniques are Browser based filters, E-mail filters, 3 Client-side filters, Content-limited (or filtered) ISPs, Network-based filtering, Search-engine filtering etc [3]. Content Filtering Systems on web pages is an important research area primarily due to following reasons: It protects users i.e. minor ages people from unwanted content; the resources on the network can be saved from unwanted usage like playing network games, watching adult video in an office network etc. There exist many processes in Content Filtering RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS