Paper Info
Title
Review of "Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice" by Croft, Metzler and Strohman
Abstract
Despite the common public use of Web search engines, their internal design details mostly remain as a black art. The speculation is that there is a significant knowledge gap between what is published by academia and what is guarded behind the doors of large-scale search companies. ''Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice'' is one of the few books that make an attempt to cover issues involved in search engine design and is probably the most comprehensive book published so far on this topic. Unfortunately, the book fails to be a complete search engine guide as its content is dominated by the topics from information retrieval, text processing, and statistics. More precisely, the focus of the book is biased towards the ''search'' rather than the ''engines'' as, in most places, discussions on effectiveness dominate those on efficiency by a great margin. However, the book stands as a very solid IR book.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1016/j.ipm.2009.12.009
Inf. Process. Manage.
Keywords
Field
DocType
search engines,information retrieval,large-scale search company,web search engine,solid ir book,comprehensive book,search engine design,black art,complete search engine guide,internal design detail,search engine
Speculation,Data mining,World Wide Web,Search engine,Human–computer information retrieval,Query expansion,Information retrieval,Computer science,Search engine indexing,Public use,Search analytics,Text processing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
46
3
Information Processing and Management
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.40
0
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
B. Barla Cambazoglu173538.87