Scalability Challenges in Web Search Engines

by B Barla Cambazoglu and Ricardo Baeza-Yates

In this book, we aim to provide a fairly comprehensive overview of the scalability and efficiency challenges in large-scale web search engines. More specifically, we cover the issues involved in the design of three separate systems that are commonly available in every web-scale search engine: web crawling, indexing, and query processing systems. We present the performance challenges encountered in these systems and review a wide range of design alternatives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031011708
• ISBN13: 9783031011702
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 122 Pages