Cambazoglu, B. Barla. <br/><br/>
Scalability Challenges in Web Search Engines  [electronic resource] / 
by B. Barla Cambazoglu, Ricardo Baeza-Yates. 
 - 1st ed. 2016. 
 - XV, 122 p.  online resource. 
 - Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services,  1947-9468 .
 - Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services, .
<br/><br/>Preface -- Introduction -- The Web Crawling System -- The Indexing System -- The Query Processing System -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Authors' Biographies . 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783031022982 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.1007/978-3-031-02298-2  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Computer networks .<br/>Computer Communication Networks.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TK5105.5-5105.9 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>004.6