Search engine academic research-search engine technology

Search is an age-old requirement, and it is an important research field long before the internet is produced. It can be said that any provision of information to find services are search engines, the internet just magnified this demand. Now the trend of search technology is everywhere, the future of competition is not limited to the Internet, local, LAN, intranet and wireless network will be included.

Before the advent of the Internet, the theory and technology of computer retrieval has been studied for more than more than 30 years, which is limited in the field of information retrieval, mainly on the index and retrieval of small scale and text data, and related papers are published mainly in Sigir and TREC. Search engine to deal with the Internet information has a mass, heterogeneous, hypermedia and other characteristics, using a variety of computer Science Theory and foundation:
1 Artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining.
2 Information retrieval, information extraction.
3 Text processing, natural language processing.
4 information theory, data compression.
5 architecture, parallel Computing, database technology.
6) Other.
Now, the annual papers in these fields will have papers related to web information retrieval, which has become the focus of many research institutes. The Annual international WWW Conference (INTERNATIONAL World WIDE WEB Conference) has lots of papers on search engines.