Web pages change frequently and thus crawlers have to download them often. Various policies have been proposed for refreshing
local copies of web pages. In this paper, we introduce a new sampling method that excels over other change detection methods
in experiment. Change Frequency (CF) is a method that predicts the change frequency of the pages and, in the long run, achieves
an optimal efficiency in comparison with the sampling method. Here, we propose a new hybrid method that is a combination of
our new sampling approach and CF and show how our hybrid method improves the efficiency of change detection.
Keywords web crawling - change detection - sampling - change frequency - hybrid algorithm