| Description | Techniques and tools to automatically crawl, parse, index, store and search Web information, organizing knowledge that can help meet the needs of organizations, communities and individual users. Social, security, and business impact of search engine technology. As a project, students will build a functioning search engine and compare it with Google or Yahoo. |
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| Prerequisites | Ideally some hands-on programming, preferably in Perl. Minimally I211 and I308 or equivalents. |
| Book(s) | We will use Finding Out About by Rik Belew (Cambridge University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-521-63028-2) as our main reference, but augment it with class notes. Some students may be interested in Google: The Missing Manual by S. Milstein and R. Dornfest (2004) for a more "over the hood" view of Google and its Web API. And for the mathematically inclined, check out Google's PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings by A. Langville and C. Meyer (2006). For Perl reference, you are encouraged to use any of the O'Reilly books, or there are over 20 books on Perl available for free to IU students via Books 24x7 (IU license proxy). |
| Lecture | 09:05A-09:55A MW in room Eigenmann 921 |
| Lab | 10:10A-11:00A F in room Informatics 109 |
| Instructor | Filippo Menczer (Office Hours: TBA at TBA in TBA, or by appointment in Eigenmann 909) |
| AI | TBA (Office Hours: TBA at TBA in TBA) |
| Contact | Use the Oncourse Discussion Forum for all class-related questions and communications! Use email only for personal communications. |