新农村信息平台建设土地资源管理子系统文献翻译英文 Architecture of a Seach Engine.docVIP

Architecture of a Search Engine The term search engine is often used generically to describe both crawler-based search engines and human-powered directories. These two types of search engines gather their listings in radically different ways. Crawler-based search engines, such as Google, create their listings automatically. They crawl or spider the web, then people search through what they have found. A human-powered directory, such as the Open Directory, depends on humans for its listings. You submit a short description to the directory for your entire site, or editors write one for sites they review. A search looks for matches only in the descriptions submitted. A typical crawler-based search engine has several major elements. First is the spider, also called the crawler. The spider visits a Web page, reads it, and then follows links to other pages within the site. This is what it means when someone refers to a site being spidered or crawled. The spider returns to the site on a regular basis, such as every month or two, to look for changes. Everything the spider finds goes into the second part of the search engine, the index. The index, sometimes called the catalogue, is like a giant book containing a copy of every Web page that the spider finds. If a Web page changes, then this book is updated with new information. Search engine software is the third part of a search engine. This is the program that sifts through the millions of pages recorded in the index to find matches to a search and rank them in order of what it believes is most relevant. One can also picture a typical search engine (of any type) using the following elements: User Interface This is needed to take the user query. Search Module Transforms the query to an understandable format, then performs matching with the index and finally returns results as output with the needed information. Index A database/repository with the data to be searched. The architecture is depicted in the figure below: Th