Scalability Challenges in Web Search Engines / by B. Barla Cambazoglu, Ricardo Baeza-Yates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cambazoglu, B. Barla., Author.

Baeza-Yates, Ricardo., Author.

Series:

Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services, 1947-9468

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer networks.

Computer Communication Networks.

Local Subjects:

Computer Communication Networks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XV, 122 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

In this book, we aim to provide a fairly comprehensive overview of the scalability and efficiency challenges in large-scale web search engines. More specifically, we cover the issues involved in the design of three separate systems that are commonly available in every web-scale search engine: web crawling, indexing, and query processing systems. We present the performance challenges encountered in these systems and review a wide range of design alternatives employed as solution to these challenges, specifically focusing on algorithmic and architectural optimizations. We discuss the available optimizations at different computational granularities, ranging from a single computer node to a collection of data centers. We provide some hints to both the practitioners and theoreticians involved in the field about the way large-scale web search engines operate and the adopted design choices. Moreover, we survey the efficiency literature, providing pointers to a large number of relatively important research papers. Finally, we discuss some open research problems in the context of search engine efficiency.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

The Web Crawling System

The Indexing System

The Query Processing System

Concluding Remarks

Bibliography

Authors' Biographies .

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783031022982

303102298X