Search Engines Information Retrieval in Practice PPT chap7.pptVIP

Galago Query Language Galago Query Language Web Search Most important, but not only, search application Major differences to TREC news Size of collection Connections between documents Range of document types Importance of spam Volume of queries Range of query types Search Taxonomy Informational Finding information about some topic which may be on one or more web pages Topical search Navigational finding a particular web page that the user has either seen before or is assumed to exist Transactional finding a site where a task such as shopping or downloading music can be performed Web Search For