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Understanding Search Engines?
An anonymous reader asks: "I guess by now we can be fairly certain that search engines are here to stay, and hence I'm trying to understand how the technology works. I'm not so much looking for a particular 'best' technology or implementation, but rather an overview of the different approaches and their trade-offs. Something that would teach me: which approach works in a distributed vs a centralized infrastructure; how different algorithms will perform on complete search words vs arbitrary sub-strings; or how mass storage (hard disk vs. solid state) affects implementation choices. For most mature technologies there is a host of 'overview' books and papers for my questions -- but I couldn't find anything on search engines. Where should I look? Are there any good books or papers?"
Not to sound reproachful, but don't reinvent the wheel.
If you need a search tool, look around for a solution that someone else has already wasted years of their life on rather than have yourself do the same. Why recode, when you can download?
May the Maths Be with you!
From the link I just clicked on I saw:
Ask Slashdot: Understanding Search Engines? 8 of 7 comments
It took a second glance to notice the subtle error in the wording.
Bug in slash?
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Alert!
"Progressive" and "Radical" Blogs on Blogger seem to be completely unavailable for over 10 hours.
I am trying to get responses here, and come to a consensus. Are these being deleted?
The following ".blogspot.com" sites are unavailable as of Saturday, Feb. 4, 4PM EST.
http://gorillaintheroom.blogspot.com/
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/
http://spacetimecurves.blogspot.com/
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/
http://jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com/
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/
And many more.
A casual use of the search function on the Blogger/Blogspot front page returns the sites in question.
Conservative political sites also seem to still be "killed".
Plenty of sites promoting cheese in salads , or announcing the purchase of new home electronics , seem to be available.
Are we experiencing a crackdown? Is this a "service outage" anomaly?
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell