Can I read Search Engines on EtoBox?

Search Engines by Thomas M. Parks is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Search Engines about?

A search engine may build a lexicon of words extracted from all the documents in its database. polysemy The property of having multiple meanings. A word is polysemous when it can have different meanings in different contexts. robot See spider. spamming The practice of designing Web pages to exploit the ranking methods of search engines. spider A computer program that visits Web pages by following hypertext links. stemming The process of removing prefixes and suffixes to obtain the base form of a word. stop words Frequently occurring words that convey little information. synonomy The property of having the same meaning. Words are synonymous when they have the same meaning. truncation The process of removing letters from the end of a word SEARCH ENGINES send out spiders to crawl across the Web, following links from one Web page to the next. The documents discovered by the spider are indexed in a huge database. The ever-changing nature of the Web makes keeping this database up-to-date a constant challenge. Queries entered at search engine sites trigger searches through this database. Thousands or millions of Web pages may match a query. Search engines must rank the results so that the

Author

Thomas M. Parks

Publisher

Elsevier

Published

2003

Language

EN