WWW Search Engines

3 Credits

Study of algorithms, architectures, and implementations of WWW search engines. Information retrieval (IR) models; performance evaluation; properties of hypertext crawling, indexing, searching and ranking; link analysis; parallel and distributed IR; user interfaces. This course, a version of CSE 345 for graduate students, requires research projects and advanced assignments. Credit will not be given for both CSE 345 and CSE 445 .