Modern Search Engine Techniques

Implementation of a Modern Web Search Engine Cluster

Yuntis is a fully-functional prototype of a complete web search engine with features comparable to those available in commercial-grade search engines. In particular, Yuntis supports page quality scoring based on global web linkage graph, extensively exploits text associated with links, computes pages’ keywords and lists of similar pages of good quality, and provides a very flexible query langua...

Web 2.0 Techniques for Search Engine Optimization: Two Case Studies

Search engine optimization (SEO) is a process that seeks to achieve a high ranking in the search engine results for certain search words or phrases. This process typically involves making certain changes to a site, as well as acquiring links from other sites. One aspect of SEO that has begun to receive much attention by practitioners is the use of Web 2.0 sites and technologies. Knowledgeable p...

Data Search Engine Introduction

Tamil Search Engine

The web creates new challenges for information retrieval. The amount of information on the web, as well as the number of new users is growing rapidly. Search engine technology has to scale dramatically to keep up with the growth of the web. In this paper, we present the details of constructing and maintaining a Tamil Search Engine. We discuss the issues such as the crawler, the database storage...

Measuring search engine bias

This paper examines a real-time measure of bias in Web search engines. The measure captures the degree to which the distribution of URLs, retrieved in response to a query, deviates from an ideal or fair distribution for that query. This ideal is approximated by the distribution produced by a collection of search engines. Differences between bias and classical retrieval measures are highlighted ...