Search Engines

Search Engines are typically based on key word searching. However, what you are really looking for when you use a search engine are pages/papers on a certain topic. Key words are merely a way of describing the topic. Is there a better way to describe the topic, and to index and access pages/papers on that topic?

• A list of search engines
  • Lycos in the UK
  • hotbot/lycos
  • google
  • Dogpile (AI based search?)
  • yahoo uk
  • yahoo
  • alta vista uk
  • alta vista
  • 37.com meta search engine
  • Ask Jeeves
  • All the web, Ian says it's fast.
• PhD students
  • Viviane Orengo completed her work on Multilingual Information Retrieval in Digital Libraries in 2003
• Papers
  • A Stemming Algorithm for the Portugese LanguageSPIRE in Chile 2001 by Vivianne Orengo and I.
  • Relevance Feedback and Cross-Language Information Retrievalin the Journal of Information Processing and Management.
• MSc theses supervised in this area
  • The Analysis of Currently Used Search Engines on the WWW and the Introduction and Theoretical Design of a Search Engine for the Future. By Ayshe Mehmet-Hassan 1999
  • Enhancing Search Techniques in Digital Libraries. By Hany N. Nawar 1999
• Other useful links
  • Latent Semantic Analysis
  • W3 search engine page

This page was developed by Chris Huyck
Page last modified Wednesday, March 08, 2000 13:12:18