Introduction to Search Engines

Tom Kelliher, CS 102

Feb. 2, 2001

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Announcements

Finish-up Word projects on your own. Let me know if you run into difficulties. You should be able to do all the practices/challenges. You are responsible for the true/false questions at the end of projects 3--6 on the next quiz.

Assignment

See reading assignment on course home page.

From Last Time

MS Word Lab.

Outline

1. Introduction to search engines.

2. Search engine Lab.

Coming Up

Types of search engines, comparisons.

Introduction to Search Engines

1. What is a search engine?

2. Why do they exist?

3. How do they work?
   1. Indexes

   2. Keyword-driven search engines.

4. The problems: too many ``hits,'' evaluating quality.

Search engine Lab.