Sunday, May 07, 2006

Search Engine Project

Last week I started my last project before my thesis. It's about implementing a search engine and consider the complexity of searching algorithms. So far, what I have realized is that it is more about choosing the right data structure to store your data, than optimizing the search algorithm.. At least up to now, the only thing I was doing to optimize the search was to change the data structures.. This week I will focus on the search algorithm and some extra features..

My personal motivation is to make the search faster than the one's implemented by other students. I have a friend that did this project a year ago and I have some measurements from some other students that did it 2 years ago.. Let's see.. I have 3 more weeks..

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Είμαι σίγουρος ότι στο DATA σου έμαθαν την σειριακή αναζήτηση!!!

Unknown said...

I have a friend in the search engine bussiness. You may know him, his name is Yiannis Tsoukalidis. He may be able to help you...

Stavros Amanatidis said...

αααχχχ.. ωραίες εποχές οι εποχές του Data..

Yiannis what? Tsoukalidis? Is he Greek? I know only Sakis, Koula, Dimitris and Eva.. There are more? :)

loukoumaki said...

glukoulaki mou, kalo kouragio! kai an koliseis (pou den nomizo) zita ena xeraki apo tous aksiotimous filous.. :)

Unknown said...

Yes, I think there is one more.. not Yiannis... but Ioannis and he is working in MSN Search Engine..!!

Stavros Amanatidis said...

thanks Loukoumaki!! Ελπίζω να μην κολήσω, αλλά ποτέ δεν ξέρεις..

Ioannis, Ioannis.. I don't know him.. (I am laughing while thinking to post a photo of us two from a party, but he will not be very happy if he learns about it :D :D :D )

Chris-Top said...

B dentra anestramena arxeia dictionaries ktl ... exoume "mallon" thn idia ergasia esu gia to ma8ima sou kai egw gia to ma8ima pou onomazetai anaktisi pliroforias. Polu fovamai oti mono i ekfwnisi einai idia...Alla 8a exei sto mualo tou o ka8igitis mas kai alla mallon o dikos sas ... hehehe. Egw pantws 8a sou proteina ean xreiasteis kati na psa3eis sto internet mporei na vreis tipota... Episis klase ton prat akous ekei me seiriaki anazitisi ... me for kai if ginetai to 3erw sou lew giati exw kai gw na to kanw ... laters!

Stavros Amanatidis said...

vasika exei na kanei me linked lists, hash tables(edw vazeis kai hash functions, conflicts(chained hashing, cockoon hashing)) kai diaforous sunduasmous autwn twn data structures gia na petuxeis to taxutero apotelesma se anakthsh dedomenwn.. p.x. sthn arxh egrafes mia le3h kai sou epestefe an uparxei sthn vash mas(txt arxeio), meta to ekana na sou dinei kai ta urls sta opoia uparxei, twra mporeis na kaneis free-text search("the internet"), aurio 8a mporeis na kaneis boolean search (stavros AND amanatidis) kai elpizw mexri thn deutera na mporeis na kaneis kai complex boolean search ( (Stavros AND Amanatidis) OR (Lipis OR Dealer) AND best).. ta dentra isws xrhsimopoihsw sto parsing tou complex boolean string pou 8a mou dwsei o xrhsths..
isws 3efuga ligo, alla ta eipa gia na lusw apories :)

Chris, sou stelnw to report otan teliewsw ama 8eleis..

Stavros Amanatidis said...

full-text search.. oxi free-text search.. alla molis 3upnhsa :)