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This book presents a systematic study of practices and theories for query understanding of search engines. These studies can be categorized into three major classes.

Importantly, the book enables readers to develop strategies which will continue to be useful despite the rapidly-evolving state of the Internet and Internet technologies - it is not about technological tricks Enables readers to be aware of ...

The modular structure of the book allows instructors to use it in a variety of graduate-level courses, including courses taught from a database systems perspective, traditional information retrieval courses with a focus on IR theory, and ...

... search for a planet : the Google cluster architecture . IEEE Micro 23 ( 2 ) : 22–28 Belew RK ( 2000 ) Finding out ... pdf Croft WB , Metzler D , Strohman T ( 2009 ) Search engines – information retrieval in practice . Addison ...

The second edition of Understanding Search Engines: Mathematical Modeling and Text Retrieval follows the basic premise of the first edition by discussing many of the key design issues for building search engines and emphasizing the ...

Slides and additional exercises (with solutions for lecturers) are also available through the book's supporting website to help course instructors prepare their lectures.

... search engines . In : Search engines : Information retrieval in practice 1st ed . , Addison Wesley : 269–307 Dunlop ... pdf Gonzalo J , Oard DW ( 2003 ) . The CLEF 2002 interactive track . In : Advances in cross - language ...

Such large collections pose a new set of challenges for information retrieval researchers. In this work, Metzler describes highly effective information retrieval models for both smaller, classical data sets, and larger Axtarish collections.