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Search Engines and Web Information Retrieval

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This survey describes the main components of web information retrieval, with emphasis on the algorithmic aspects of web search engine research.

A shorter version of this survey appears as part of “Algorithmic Foundations of the Internet”, A. López-Ortiz, SIGACT News, v. 36, no. 2, June 2005.

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López-Ortiz, A. (2005). Search Engines and Web Information Retrieval . In: López-Ortiz, A., Hamel, A.M. (eds) Combinatorial and Algorithmic Aspects of Networking. CAAN 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3405. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11527954_18

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