Search engines allow users to search the vast collection of documents on the web. They consist of crawlers that fetch web pages, indexers that analyze page content and links, and interfaces that allow users to enter queries. Crawlers add pages to an index by following links, and indexers create inverted indexes to map words to pages. When a query is searched, results are retrieved from the index and ranked based on relevance. PageRank is a key algorithm that ranks pages higher that receive more links from other highly ranked pages. While it effectively searches the large, diverse and dynamic web, search poses challenges in understanding ambiguous queries over an evolving collection.
A web crawler is a program that browses the World Wide Web methodically by following links from page to page and downloading each page to be indexed later by a search engine. It initializes seed URLs, adds them to a frontier, selects URLs from the frontier to fetch and parse for new links, adding those links to the frontier until none remain. Web crawlers are used by search engines to regularly update their databases and keep their indexes current.
There are several open source search engines available, such as Nutch, Lucene, and ASPSeek. Nutch is a flexible and scalable open source web search engine that can be used at a global, local, or personal scale. It has a modular architecture using plug-ins for parsing, analysis, data retrieval, and queries. Nutch indexes text using Lucene and stores indexes, documents, and link structures in databases to power searching and crawling functions. It analyzes links and removes duplicate documents from search results.
This document discusses web data mining and provides details on web content mining, web structure mining, and web usage mining. It describes how web content mining involves discovering useful information from web page contents, how web structure mining discovers the link structure underlying the web, and how web usage mining makes sense of web user behavior data. The document also summarizes Kleinberg's algorithm for determining authoritative pages on a topic by considering pages as hubs and authorities in a mutually reinforcing relationship.
Programs, processes, and threads are related but distinct concepts. A program is a passive set of instructions stored on disk. When executed, a program becomes an active process, which has its own memory space and resources. A process can contain multiple threads of execution that can run concurrently within the same memory space, allowing for parallelism. Threads are lightweight in comparison to processes and provide a way to improve application performance through parallel computing.
This document discusses modelling and representing social network data ontologically. It covers representing social individuals and relationships ontologically, as well as aggregating and reasoning with social network data. It discusses ontology languages like RDF, OWL, and FOAF that can be used to represent social network data and individuals semantically. It also talks about state-of-the-art approaches for representing network structure and attribute data, and the need for representations that can integrate different data sources and maintain identity.
This document provides a full syllabus with questions and answers related to the course "Information Retrieval" including definitions of key concepts, the historical development of the field, comparisons between information retrieval and web search, applications of IR, components of an IR system, and issues in IR systems. It also lists examples of open source search frameworks and performance measures for search engines.
The document summarizes a technical seminar on web-based information retrieval systems. It discusses information retrieval architecture and approaches, including syntactical, statistical, and semantic methods. It also covers web search analysis techniques like web structure analysis, content analysis, and usage analysis. The document outlines the process of web crawling and types of crawlers. It discusses challenges of web structure, crawling and indexing, and searching. Finally, it concludes that as unstructured online information grows, information retrieval techniques must continue to improve to leverage this data.
A web crawler is a program that browses the World Wide Web methodically by following links from page to page and downloading each page to be indexed later by a search engine. It initializes seed URLs, adds them to a frontier, selects URLs from the frontier to fetch and parse for new links, adding those links to the frontier until none remain. Web crawlers are used by search engines to regularly update their databases and keep their indexes current.
There are several open source search engines available, such as Nutch, Lucene, and ASPSeek. Nutch is a flexible and scalable open source web search engine that can be used at a global, local, or personal scale. It has a modular architecture using plug-ins for parsing, analysis, data retrieval, and queries. Nutch indexes text using Lucene and stores indexes, documents, and link structures in databases to power searching and crawling functions. It analyzes links and removes duplicate documents from search results.
This document discusses web data mining and provides details on web content mining, web structure mining, and web usage mining. It describes how web content mining involves discovering useful information from web page contents, how web structure mining discovers the link structure underlying the web, and how web usage mining makes sense of web user behavior data. The document also summarizes Kleinberg's algorithm for determining authoritative pages on a topic by considering pages as hubs and authorities in a mutually reinforcing relationship.
Programs, processes, and threads are related but distinct concepts. A program is a passive set of instructions stored on disk. When executed, a program becomes an active process, which has its own memory space and resources. A process can contain multiple threads of execution that can run concurrently within the same memory space, allowing for parallelism. Threads are lightweight in comparison to processes and provide a way to improve application performance through parallel computing.
This document discusses modelling and representing social network data ontologically. It covers representing social individuals and relationships ontologically, as well as aggregating and reasoning with social network data. It discusses ontology languages like RDF, OWL, and FOAF that can be used to represent social network data and individuals semantically. It also talks about state-of-the-art approaches for representing network structure and attribute data, and the need for representations that can integrate different data sources and maintain identity.
This document provides a full syllabus with questions and answers related to the course "Information Retrieval" including definitions of key concepts, the historical development of the field, comparisons between information retrieval and web search, applications of IR, components of an IR system, and issues in IR systems. It also lists examples of open source search frameworks and performance measures for search engines.
The document summarizes a technical seminar on web-based information retrieval systems. It discusses information retrieval architecture and approaches, including syntactical, statistical, and semantic methods. It also covers web search analysis techniques like web structure analysis, content analysis, and usage analysis. The document outlines the process of web crawling and types of crawlers. It discusses challenges of web structure, crawling and indexing, and searching. Finally, it concludes that as unstructured online information grows, information retrieval techniques must continue to improve to leverage this data.
The document discusses the semantic web, including its history and key components. It describes how the semantic web aims to make web content machine-readable through technologies like XML, URIs, RDF, RDFS, and OWL. This will allow computers to better understand web resources and their relationships, enabling more intelligent searching and use of web data than is possible on the traditional web. However, developing the semantic web also faces challenges such as complexity, lack of industry adoption, and needing further consensus on technical standards.
Broad introduction to information retrieval and web search, used to teaching at the Yahoo Bangalore Summer School 2013. Slides are a mash-up from my own and other people's presentations.
The network layer is responsible for routing packets from the source to destination. The routing algorithm is the piece of software that decides where a packet goes next (e.g., which output line, or which node on a broadcast channel).For connectionless networks, the routing decision is made for each datagram. For connection-oriented networks, the decision is made once, at circuit setup time.
Routing Issues
The routing algorithm must deal with the following issues:
Correctness and simplicity: networks are never taken down; individual parts (e.g., links, routers) may fail, but the whole network should not.
Stability: if a link or router fails, how much time elapses before the remaining routers recognize the topology change? (Some never do..)
Fairness and optimality: an inherently intractable problem. Definition of optimality usually doesn't consider fairness. Do we want to maximize channel usage? Minimize average delay?
When we look at routing in detail, we'll consider both adaptive--those that take current traffic and topology into consideration--and nonadaptive algorithms.
The document discusses web crawlers, which are programs that download web pages to help search engines index websites. It explains that crawlers use strategies like breadth-first search and depth-first search to systematically crawl the web. The architecture of crawlers includes components like the URL frontier, DNS lookup, and parsing pages to extract links. Crawling policies determine which pages to download and when to revisit pages. Distributed crawling improves efficiency by using multiple coordinated crawlers.
HTTP is a request-response protocol for transferring data over the internet. It was introduced by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. The client submits an HTTP request to the server, which responds with status information and requested content. HTTP uses TCP for network connectivity and relies on DNS to connect clients to servers. HTTP 1.0 defined GET, POST, and HEAD methods, while HTTP 1.1 added PUT, DELETE, TRACE, OPTIONS, and CONNECT. Persistent connections allow multiple requests/responses over a single TCP connection, improving efficiency versus non-persistent connections requiring separate TCP for each transaction.
HTTP requests and responses follow a generic message format that includes a start line, message headers, an optional message body, and optional trailers. The start line indicates the request method and URI for requests or the HTTP version and status code for responses. Headers provide additional metadata about the message, sender, recipient, or content. The body carries request data or response content. Trailers are rarely used and provide additional headers after chunked content.
This document provides an introduction and definition of distributed systems. It discusses that a distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that appear as a single system to users. It describes characteristics like transparency, openness, and scalability. Hardware concepts like shared memory multiprocessors and message passing multicomputers are covered. Software concepts like distributed operating systems and network operating systems are introduced. Transparency, organization, goals and examples of distributed systems are summarized.
Fault tolerance is important for distributed systems to continue functioning in the event of partial failures. There are several phases to achieving fault tolerance: fault detection, diagnosis, evidence generation, assessment, and recovery. Common techniques include replication, where multiple copies of data are stored at different sites to increase availability if one site fails, and check pointing, where a system's state is periodically saved to stable storage so the system can be restored to a previous consistent state if a failure occurs. Both techniques have limitations around managing consistency with replication and overhead from checkpointing communications and storage requirements.
The document discusses the World Wide Web and information retrieval on the web. It provides background on how the web was developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 using HTML, HTTP, and URLs. It then discusses some key differences in information retrieval on the web compared to traditional library systems, including the presence of hyperlinks, heterogeneous content, duplication of content, exponential growth in the number of documents, and lack of stability. It also summarizes some challenges in web search including the expanding nature of the web, dynamically generated content, influence of monetary contributions on search results, and search engine spamming.
This document compares web search and information retrieval (IR) across 10 differentiators:
1. Languages - Web search indexes documents in many languages using full text, while IR databases usually cover one language.
2. File types - Web search indexes several file types including some without text, while IR indexes consistent formats like PDF.
3. Document length - Web documents vary widely in length from short to long, while IR documents vary less.
4. Document structure - Web documents are semi-structured HTML, while IR allows searching structured document fields.
Threads provide concurrency within a process by allowing parallel execution. A thread is a flow of execution that has its own program counter, registers, and stack. Threads share code and data segments with other threads in the same process. There are two types: user threads managed by a library and kernel threads managed by the operating system kernel. Kernel threads allow true parallelism but have more overhead than user threads. Multithreading models include many-to-one, one-to-one, and many-to-many depending on how user threads map to kernel threads. Threads improve performance over single-threaded processes and allow for scalability across multiple CPUs.
The document defines metadata as data about data that provides a summary and roadmap for a data warehouse. It discusses three main types of metadata: business metadata which contains ownership and definition information; technical metadata which includes database structure and attributes; and operational metadata which tracks data currency and lineage. Finally, the document outlines the key roles of metadata as a directory to locate data warehouse content and map data transformations, and notes that correctly defining stored metadata presents a challenge.
This document discusses search engines and web crawling. It begins by defining a search engine as a searchable database that collects information from web pages on the internet by indexing them and storing the results. It then discusses the need for search engines and provides examples. The document outlines how search engines work using spiders to crawl websites, index pages, and power search functionality. It defines web crawlers and their role in crawling websites. Key factors that affect web crawling like robots.txt, sitemaps, and manual submission are covered. Related areas like indexing, searching algorithms, and data mining are summarized. The document demonstrates how crawlers can download full websites and provides examples of open source crawlers.
The document provides an overview of web design, including:
1) The basic components of websites like pages, links, and browsers are introduced.
2) Effective site structure is important - pages should be logically grouped and linked together to meet a site's purpose.
3) Consistent page layout across a site helps users navigate, typically using standard colors, fonts, and positioning of elements.
4) Additional features like images, tables, forms, scripts, and multimedia can enrich sites, though some require certain browsers or plugins.
5) Completed sites must be uploaded to web servers for public access over the internet.
This document discusses directory structures and file system mounting in operating systems. It describes several types of directory structures including single-level, two-level, hierarchical, tree, and acyclic graph structures. It notes that directories organize files in a hierarchical manner and that mounting makes storage devices available to the operating system by reading metadata about the filesystem. Mounting attaches an additional filesystem to the currently accessible filesystem, while unmounting disconnects the filesystem.
Clustering: Large Databases in data miningZHAO Sam
The document discusses different approaches for clustering large databases, including divide-and-conquer, incremental, and parallel clustering. It describes three major scalable clustering algorithms: BIRCH, which incrementally clusters incoming records and organizes clusters in a tree structure; CURE, which uses a divide-and-conquer approach to partition data and cluster subsets independently; and DBSCAN, a density-based algorithm that groups together densely populated areas of points.
The document discusses the client-server architecture, including its definition, timeline, types of servers, tiers, protocols, and future directions. The client-server model involves clients sending requests to servers which process and return responses. It has evolved from mainframe computers to today's multi-tier architectures with web, application, and database servers. Protocols like HTTP, TCP/IP, and FTP are used to facilitate communication between clients and servers. Cloud computing is presented as the future direction rather than traditional client-server systems.
The document discusses various algorithms for achieving distributed mutual exclusion and process synchronization in distributed systems. It covers centralized, token ring, Ricart-Agrawala, Lamport, and decentralized algorithms. It also discusses election algorithms for selecting a coordinator process, including the Bully algorithm. The key techniques discussed are using logical clocks, message passing, and quorums to achieve mutual exclusion without a single point of failure.
4.1Introduction
- Potential Threats and Attacks on Computer System
- Confinement Problems
- Design Issues in Building Secure Distributed Systems
4.2 Cryptography
- Symmetric Cryptosystem Algorithm: DES
- Asymmetric Cryptosystem
4.3 Secure Channels
- Authentication
- Message Integrity and Confidentiality
- Secure Group Communication
4.4 Access Control
- General Issues
- Firewalls
- Secure Mobile Code
4.5 Security Management
- Key Management
- Issues in Key Distribution
- Secure Group Management
- Authorization Management
Web mining involves applying data mining techniques to discover useful information from web data. There are three types of web mining: web content mining analyzes data within web pages, web structure mining examines the hyperlink structure between pages, and web usage mining involves analyzing server logs to discover patterns in user behavior and interactions with websites. Web mining has applications in website design, web traffic analysis, e-commerce personalization, and security/crime investigation.
The document discusses the semantic web, including its history and key components. It describes how the semantic web aims to make web content machine-readable through technologies like XML, URIs, RDF, RDFS, and OWL. This will allow computers to better understand web resources and their relationships, enabling more intelligent searching and use of web data than is possible on the traditional web. However, developing the semantic web also faces challenges such as complexity, lack of industry adoption, and needing further consensus on technical standards.
Broad introduction to information retrieval and web search, used to teaching at the Yahoo Bangalore Summer School 2013. Slides are a mash-up from my own and other people's presentations.
The network layer is responsible for routing packets from the source to destination. The routing algorithm is the piece of software that decides where a packet goes next (e.g., which output line, or which node on a broadcast channel).For connectionless networks, the routing decision is made for each datagram. For connection-oriented networks, the decision is made once, at circuit setup time.
Routing Issues
The routing algorithm must deal with the following issues:
Correctness and simplicity: networks are never taken down; individual parts (e.g., links, routers) may fail, but the whole network should not.
Stability: if a link or router fails, how much time elapses before the remaining routers recognize the topology change? (Some never do..)
Fairness and optimality: an inherently intractable problem. Definition of optimality usually doesn't consider fairness. Do we want to maximize channel usage? Minimize average delay?
When we look at routing in detail, we'll consider both adaptive--those that take current traffic and topology into consideration--and nonadaptive algorithms.
The document discusses web crawlers, which are programs that download web pages to help search engines index websites. It explains that crawlers use strategies like breadth-first search and depth-first search to systematically crawl the web. The architecture of crawlers includes components like the URL frontier, DNS lookup, and parsing pages to extract links. Crawling policies determine which pages to download and when to revisit pages. Distributed crawling improves efficiency by using multiple coordinated crawlers.
HTTP is a request-response protocol for transferring data over the internet. It was introduced by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. The client submits an HTTP request to the server, which responds with status information and requested content. HTTP uses TCP for network connectivity and relies on DNS to connect clients to servers. HTTP 1.0 defined GET, POST, and HEAD methods, while HTTP 1.1 added PUT, DELETE, TRACE, OPTIONS, and CONNECT. Persistent connections allow multiple requests/responses over a single TCP connection, improving efficiency versus non-persistent connections requiring separate TCP for each transaction.
HTTP requests and responses follow a generic message format that includes a start line, message headers, an optional message body, and optional trailers. The start line indicates the request method and URI for requests or the HTTP version and status code for responses. Headers provide additional metadata about the message, sender, recipient, or content. The body carries request data or response content. Trailers are rarely used and provide additional headers after chunked content.
This document provides an introduction and definition of distributed systems. It discusses that a distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that appear as a single system to users. It describes characteristics like transparency, openness, and scalability. Hardware concepts like shared memory multiprocessors and message passing multicomputers are covered. Software concepts like distributed operating systems and network operating systems are introduced. Transparency, organization, goals and examples of distributed systems are summarized.
Fault tolerance is important for distributed systems to continue functioning in the event of partial failures. There are several phases to achieving fault tolerance: fault detection, diagnosis, evidence generation, assessment, and recovery. Common techniques include replication, where multiple copies of data are stored at different sites to increase availability if one site fails, and check pointing, where a system's state is periodically saved to stable storage so the system can be restored to a previous consistent state if a failure occurs. Both techniques have limitations around managing consistency with replication and overhead from checkpointing communications and storage requirements.
The document discusses the World Wide Web and information retrieval on the web. It provides background on how the web was developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 using HTML, HTTP, and URLs. It then discusses some key differences in information retrieval on the web compared to traditional library systems, including the presence of hyperlinks, heterogeneous content, duplication of content, exponential growth in the number of documents, and lack of stability. It also summarizes some challenges in web search including the expanding nature of the web, dynamically generated content, influence of monetary contributions on search results, and search engine spamming.
This document compares web search and information retrieval (IR) across 10 differentiators:
1. Languages - Web search indexes documents in many languages using full text, while IR databases usually cover one language.
2. File types - Web search indexes several file types including some without text, while IR indexes consistent formats like PDF.
3. Document length - Web documents vary widely in length from short to long, while IR documents vary less.
4. Document structure - Web documents are semi-structured HTML, while IR allows searching structured document fields.
Threads provide concurrency within a process by allowing parallel execution. A thread is a flow of execution that has its own program counter, registers, and stack. Threads share code and data segments with other threads in the same process. There are two types: user threads managed by a library and kernel threads managed by the operating system kernel. Kernel threads allow true parallelism but have more overhead than user threads. Multithreading models include many-to-one, one-to-one, and many-to-many depending on how user threads map to kernel threads. Threads improve performance over single-threaded processes and allow for scalability across multiple CPUs.
The document defines metadata as data about data that provides a summary and roadmap for a data warehouse. It discusses three main types of metadata: business metadata which contains ownership and definition information; technical metadata which includes database structure and attributes; and operational metadata which tracks data currency and lineage. Finally, the document outlines the key roles of metadata as a directory to locate data warehouse content and map data transformations, and notes that correctly defining stored metadata presents a challenge.
This document discusses search engines and web crawling. It begins by defining a search engine as a searchable database that collects information from web pages on the internet by indexing them and storing the results. It then discusses the need for search engines and provides examples. The document outlines how search engines work using spiders to crawl websites, index pages, and power search functionality. It defines web crawlers and their role in crawling websites. Key factors that affect web crawling like robots.txt, sitemaps, and manual submission are covered. Related areas like indexing, searching algorithms, and data mining are summarized. The document demonstrates how crawlers can download full websites and provides examples of open source crawlers.
The document provides an overview of web design, including:
1) The basic components of websites like pages, links, and browsers are introduced.
2) Effective site structure is important - pages should be logically grouped and linked together to meet a site's purpose.
3) Consistent page layout across a site helps users navigate, typically using standard colors, fonts, and positioning of elements.
4) Additional features like images, tables, forms, scripts, and multimedia can enrich sites, though some require certain browsers or plugins.
5) Completed sites must be uploaded to web servers for public access over the internet.
This document discusses directory structures and file system mounting in operating systems. It describes several types of directory structures including single-level, two-level, hierarchical, tree, and acyclic graph structures. It notes that directories organize files in a hierarchical manner and that mounting makes storage devices available to the operating system by reading metadata about the filesystem. Mounting attaches an additional filesystem to the currently accessible filesystem, while unmounting disconnects the filesystem.
Clustering: Large Databases in data miningZHAO Sam
The document discusses different approaches for clustering large databases, including divide-and-conquer, incremental, and parallel clustering. It describes three major scalable clustering algorithms: BIRCH, which incrementally clusters incoming records and organizes clusters in a tree structure; CURE, which uses a divide-and-conquer approach to partition data and cluster subsets independently; and DBSCAN, a density-based algorithm that groups together densely populated areas of points.
The document discusses the client-server architecture, including its definition, timeline, types of servers, tiers, protocols, and future directions. The client-server model involves clients sending requests to servers which process and return responses. It has evolved from mainframe computers to today's multi-tier architectures with web, application, and database servers. Protocols like HTTP, TCP/IP, and FTP are used to facilitate communication between clients and servers. Cloud computing is presented as the future direction rather than traditional client-server systems.
The document discusses various algorithms for achieving distributed mutual exclusion and process synchronization in distributed systems. It covers centralized, token ring, Ricart-Agrawala, Lamport, and decentralized algorithms. It also discusses election algorithms for selecting a coordinator process, including the Bully algorithm. The key techniques discussed are using logical clocks, message passing, and quorums to achieve mutual exclusion without a single point of failure.
4.1Introduction
- Potential Threats and Attacks on Computer System
- Confinement Problems
- Design Issues in Building Secure Distributed Systems
4.2 Cryptography
- Symmetric Cryptosystem Algorithm: DES
- Asymmetric Cryptosystem
4.3 Secure Channels
- Authentication
- Message Integrity and Confidentiality
- Secure Group Communication
4.4 Access Control
- General Issues
- Firewalls
- Secure Mobile Code
4.5 Security Management
- Key Management
- Issues in Key Distribution
- Secure Group Management
- Authorization Management
Web mining involves applying data mining techniques to discover useful information from web data. There are three types of web mining: web content mining analyzes data within web pages, web structure mining examines the hyperlink structure between pages, and web usage mining involves analyzing server logs to discover patterns in user behavior and interactions with websites. Web mining has applications in website design, web traffic analysis, e-commerce personalization, and security/crime investigation.
The document discusses web mining, which involves applying data mining techniques to extract useful information from the web. It describes the three types of web mining: web content mining of web page content, web structure mining of hyperlink structures, and web usage mining of web server logs to analyze user behavior patterns. Challenges of web mining include the complexity and dynamic nature of web data as well as diversity of users. Applications of web mining include marketing, data analysis, audience behavior analysis, and advertising campaign analysis.
Search engines are software programs that allow users to search the internet or intranet using keywords. They work by using web crawlers to follow links and analyze webpage content to determine what should be indexed. The indexed data about web pages is stored in a database for queries. When a user searches, the engine looks up the index and provides relevant results. The University's search engine crawls around 88,000 web pages daily from specific university domains and indexes them. However, search engines each have limitations in coverage, capabilities, and ability to find quality information.
International Journal of Computational Engineering Research (IJCER) is dedicated to protecting personal information and will make every reasonable effort to handle collected information appropriately. All information collected, as well as related requests, will be handled as carefully and efficiently as possible in accordance with IJCER standards for integrity and objectivity.
This document discusses web mining and outlines its goals, types, and techniques. Web mining involves examining data from the world wide web and includes web content mining, web structure mining, and web usage mining. Content mining analyzes web page contents, structure mining analyzes hyperlink structures, and usage mining analyzes web server logs and user browsing patterns. Common techniques discussed include page ranking algorithms, focused crawlers, usage pattern discovery, and preprocessing of web server logs.
Dirk Lewandowski argues that an independent index of the web is needed to ensure competition in the search market and representation of different viewpoints. Currently, most search engines rely on Google's index, and it is too costly for alternatives to build their own. Lewandowski proposes creating an index that can be accessed fairly by all to enable new search applications to be developed and motivate more competition. Funding would need to come from a pan-European initiative and the index would be operated by an independent research institution. This could spur innovation and provide alternatives to current search engine models.
The document discusses the history and impact of the World Wide Web on information retrieval and search engines. It covers:
1) How Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1990 by creating HTTP, HTML, and the first browser and server. The Web has since grown enormously.
2) How the Web changed search by requiring crawling to collect documents in a central repository before indexing, and by increasing the scale, size, and difficulty of relevance prediction due to the large collection.
3) The basic architecture of centralized crawling and indexing used by most early search engines, and how distributed and cluster-based architectures were developed to handle the Web's massive growth.
Web mining is the use of data mining techniques to automatically discover and extract information from web documents and web usage data. There are three types of web mining: web content mining, web structure mining, and web usage mining. Web content mining analyzes the contents of web pages such as text and images. Web structure mining analyzes the hyperlink structure of the web to discover communities and page rankings. Web usage mining analyzes user interactions with websites through web logs to understand user behavior. Popular algorithms for web mining include PageRank for ranking pages and HITS for identifying hubs and authorities on a topic. Web mining has applications in areas like e-commerce, security, and prediction.
The Research on Related Technologies of Web CrawlerIRJESJOURNAL
ABSTRACT: Web crawler is a computer program which can automatically download page or automation scripts, and it is an important part of the search engine. With the rapid growth of Internet, more and more network resources, search engines have been unable to meet people's need for useful information. As an important part of the search engine, web crawler is becoming more and more important role. This article mainly discusses about the working principle, classification of web crawler, etc were related in this paper. And then discusses the research and the subject of the search engine important topic web crawler.
Seminar on Search Engine Optimization.
Because users rarely click on links beyond the first search results page, boosting search-engine ranking has become essential to business success. With a deeper knowledge of search-engine optimization best practices, organizations can avoid unethical practices and effectively monitor strategies approved by popular search engines.
Whenever you enter a query in a search engine and hit 'enter' you get a list of web results that contain that query term. Users normally tend to visit websites that are at the top of this list as they perceive those to be more relevant to the query. If you have ever wondered why some of these websites rank better than the others then you must know that it is because of a powerful web marketing technique called Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
SEO is a technique which helps search engines find and rank your site higher than the millions of other sites in response to a search query. SEO thus helps you get traffic from search engines.
Digital Marketing Course Week 6: Search Engine Optimization (SEO)Ayca Turhan
Sixth week slides of eMarketing Course at Hacettepe University taught by Ayca Turhan. Topics covered within the presentation include:
Search Engine Optimization Strategies
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This document discusses the key role of search in SharePoint 2013 and new search-related features. It provides an overview of the search architecture and components in SharePoint 2013. It also demonstrates query rules and the content search web part. Cross-site publishing is overviewed as another search-dependent feature. The document emphasizes the importance of high availability for search and provides a sample PowerShell script for cloning an active search topology.
A machine learning approach to web page filtering using ...butest
This document describes a machine learning approach to web page filtering that combines content and structural analysis. The proposed approach represents web pages with features extracted from content and links. These features are used as input for machine learning algorithms like neural networks and support vector machines to classify pages. An experiment compares this approach to keyword-based and lexicon-based filtering, finding the proposed approach generally performs better, especially with few training documents.
A machine learning approach to web page filtering using ...butest
This document describes a machine learning approach to web page filtering that combines content and structural analysis. The proposed approach represents web pages with features extracted from content, such as terms and phrases, and from links. These features are used as input for machine learning algorithms like neural networks and support vector machines to classify pages. An experiment compares this approach to keyword-based and lexicon-based filtering, finding the proposed approach generally performs better, especially with few training examples. The approach could benefit topic-specific search engines and other applications.
Design Issues for Search Engines and Web Crawlers: A ReviewIOSR Journals
This document provides a review of design issues for search engines and web crawlers. It discusses how search engines use web crawlers to collect web documents for storage and indexing from the growing World Wide Web. The three main parts of a search engine are the crawler, indexer, and query engine. Crawler-based search engines create listings automatically using algorithms while human-powered directories rely on human organization. Designing efficient search engines and crawlers faces challenges from the diversity of web documents and changing user behaviors. Web crawlers prioritize URLs to download pages and extract new links to update search engine databases.
The document discusses various aspects of web mining such as web structure mining, web usage mining, and web content mining. It provides an overview of how data mining techniques can be applied to extract useful information from web data sources, including the structure of hyperlinks between pages, user behavior patterns on websites, and content within web documents. Challenges of web mining include the noisy, dynamic, and changing nature of web data that requires techniques to handle unstructured information and link analysis.
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ICGCET 2019 | 5th International Conference on Green Computing and Engineering Technologies. The conference will be held on 7th September - 9th September 2019 in Morocco. International Conference On Engineering Technology
The conference aims to promote the work of researchers, scientists, engineers and students from across the world on advancement in electronic and computer systems.
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Web mining is the application of data mining techniques to extract knowledge from web data. There are three types of web mining: web usage mining analyzes server logs to learn about user behavior; web structure mining analyzes the hyperlink structure between websites; and web content mining analyzes the contents of web pages. Web mining has various applications in areas like e-commerce, advertising, search engines, and CRM to improve business decisions by understanding customer behavior and targeting customers. It allows businesses to increase sales, optimize websites, and gain marketing intelligence.
This document discusses various computer arithmetic operations including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division for signed magnitude and two's complement data representations. It describes the Booth multiplication algorithm, array multipliers for performing multiplication using combinational circuits, and the division algorithm. It also covers detecting divide overflow conditions.
The document provides an introduction to computer security including:
- The basic components of security such as confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
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Introduction
• Most libraries have a relatively small collection of documents and a
catalogue to search documents.
• The web on the other hand is a very large collection of documents.
• The search engines allow a user to carry out the task of searching the
web for information.
• The Google dominates the search engine market(about 75%).
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Differences between web search and information retrieval
• A web search is very different than a normal information
retrieval search of a document because of the following factors:
– Bulk:
• web is much larger than any set of documents used by IR.
– Diversity:
• web pages may contains text, tables, image, video, audio
instead of only text.
– Growth:
• exponential growth of web.
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Contd..
– Dynamic:
• web changes significantly with time but text does not.
– Demanding Users:
• users demand immediate results.
– Quality of document:
• Text documents are usually of high quality but web documents may not.
– Hyperlinks:
• very important components of web documents
– Queries:
• web queries are short and ambiguous.
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Search engine
• A search engine is defined as program that searches for
documents for specified keyword and returns a list of the
documents where the keywords are found.
• A search engine consists of the following main components:
– Crawler(spider)
– Indexer
– Search engine user interface
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Contd…
• A typical search engine architecture is as shown in figure below
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Contd..
• How search engine works?
A search engine operates in the following order:
1. Web crawling
2. Indexing
3. Searching
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Contd..
• Web Crawling:
– Search engine has a huge databases of web pages . Such databases
are built and updated automatically by the web crawler.
– The web crawler performs web crawling as follows:
• The crawler begins with one or more URLs that constitute a
URL set.
• It picks a URL from this URL set, and then fetches the web
page at that URL.
• The fetched page is then parsed to extract both the text and the
links from the page.
• The extracted links (URLs) are then added to a URL set.
• The extracted text is fed to a text indexer.
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• Indexing:
– The indexer module of the search engine is responsible for
indexing the extracted text supplied by the web crawler.
– Most commonly used indexing is the inverted indexing
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Contd..
• Searching:
– When a user enters a query to the search engine, user is not
searching the entire web. Instead user is only searching the
database that has been compiled by the search engine.
– The user’s query is parsed into the words by the query parser.
– Such parsed words are matched with the words in the inverted
list of indexed documents.
– The matched list of documents are returned to the user with
ranking.
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Characteristics of search engines
• Features a search engine must provide:
– Robustness:
• search engine must be distributed over large number of
machine to deal search engine failure due to the machine
failure.
– Politeness:
• Web servers have policies regulating the rate at which a search
engine can visit them. These politeness policies must be
respected.
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• Features a search engine should provide
– Distributed:
• The search should have the ability to execute in a
distributed fashion across multiple machines.
– Scalable:
• The search engine architecture should permit scaling up
the search rate by adding extra machines.
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• Performance and efficiency:
– The search system should make efficient use of various
system resources including processor, storage and network.
• Quality:
– Given that a significant fraction of all web pages are of poor utility
for serving user query needs, the search engine should be biased
towards fetching “useful” pages first.
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Contd..
• Freshness:
– it should obtain fresh copies of previously fetched pages.
• Extensible:
– Crawlers should be designed to be extensible in many ways – to
cope with new data formats, new fetch protocols, and so on. This
demands that the crawler architecture be modular.
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Problems with search using search engines
• Specifying query keywords can be challenging:
– Search result get affected by structure of the query phrase.
– Due to the nature of English language search result may get
affected e.g., current.
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• Difficult for the search engine to be certain about what users
want.
– Some may be seeking destination While others may want only
a small number of highly relevant result.
• Diversity of search engine and web users
– Young to old
– A search engine is therefore attempting to meet the needs of a
diverse group of users.
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The goals of web search
• Depending on the nature of search engine queries, the
information needs of user may be divided into three classes:
– Navigational
– Informational
– Transactional
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Contd..
– Navigational:
• To reach a website that the user has in mind. The user may
know the site exists but or may have visited the site earlier but
does not know the site URL.
– Informational:
• To find a website that provides useful information about a topic
of interest. The user may not have a particular website in mind.
– Transactional:
• To go to a site to perform some kind of transaction. E.g., buy a
book
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Quality of search result
• The quality of search results from a search engine ideally should
satisfy the following requirements:
– Precision:
• precision indicates what percentage of documents retrieved are
relevant?
• So , only relevant documents should be returned.
– Recall:
• means what percentage of relevant documents is retrieved from
total relevant documents in the web
• So, all relevant document should be returned
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Contd..
• Ranking:
– A ranking of the documents providing some indication of the
relative relevance of the results should be returned.
• First screen:
– The first page of results should include the most relevant
results.
• Speed:
– Results should be provided quickly.
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Search engine functionality
• A search engine is a complex collection of software modules. A
search engines carries out a variety of tasks:
– Collecting information
– Evaluating and categorizing information
– Creating a database and creating indexes
– Computing ranks of the web documents
– Checking queries and executing them
– Presenting results
– Profiling the users
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Contd..
• Collecting information:
– A search engine would normally collect web pages or information
about them by web crawling.
• Evaluating and categorizing information:
– search engine evaluates the pages before submission and categorize
the information.
• Creating a database and creating indexes:
– The information collected needs to be stored either in a database
or some kind of file system. Indexes must be created so that the
information may be searched efficiently.
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• Computing ranks of the web documents: rank the web pages before
returning as a response to the user queries.
• Checking queries and executing them: queries posed by users need
to be checked , for example, for spelling errors. Once checked, a query
is executed by searching the search engine database.
• Presenting results: search engine determine what results to present
and how to display them
• Profiling the user: To improve the search performance the search
engines carry out user profiling that deals with the way users use
search engines.
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Page Ranking
• The web consists of a huge number of documents that have been
published without any quality control.
• The page ranking is a method for determining the relative
importance and quality of the page for a given query.
• The most well known ranking algorithm is the page rank
algorithm.
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Contd..
• Page rank algorithm:
– Was developed by Larry page at Stanford university.
– A hyperlink to a page counts as a vote of support .
• A page that is linked to by many pages receives a high rank and if
there is no links to a web page there is no support for that page so, get
low rank.
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– Assigns to every node in the web graph a numerical score
between 0 and 1 to each element of hyperlinked set of
documents.
– The rank value indicates the importance of a particular page.
• A page rank of 0.5 means there is a 50% chance that a person clicking
on a random link will be directed to the document with 0.5 page rank.
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• Algorithm with illustrative example:
– Assume a small universe of four web pages A, B, C and D.
– The initial approximation of Page Rank would be evenly divided between
the four documents.
– Hence each document would begin with an estimated Page Rank of 0.25.
– If pages B, C and D each only link to A, they would each confer 0.25 page
rank to A.
– i.e. PR(A) = PR(B) + PR(C) + PR(D) = 0.75
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Contd..
• Suppose that page B has link to page C as well as to page A, while pages D has
links to all three pages and page C has link to A.
• The value of link votes is divided among all the outbound links on the page.
• Thus B gives vote worth 0.125 to page A and a vote 0.125 to page C.
• Similarly, D’s page rank is 0.083 (approximately)
• i.e. PR(A) = PR(B)/2 + PR(C)/1 + PR(D)/3
• Where L(page) = number of outbound links
• Bm = set of all pages link to page m
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Home work
• What is search engine? Explain the various components of search engine
architecture.
• What is the role of crawler and indexer?
• Explain the different search engine functionality.
• What are the primary goals of web search?
• Describe the page rank algorithm. Using an example, show how it works.
• How is web search different than text retrieval?
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