Scalability Challenges in Web Search Engines (Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services)

B. Barla Cambazoglu, Ricardo Baeza-Yates

  • 出版商: Morgan & Claypool
  • 出版日期: 2015-12-01
  • 售價: $1,720
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,634
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 140
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 1627058125
  • ISBN-13: 9781627058124
  • 相關分類: JVM 語言
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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.