by Aixiang (I Song) Yao
The search system is closely related to the database. Essentially all search services are variations of database searches. This is because that the most important feature about a database is the capability of searching information. On the other hand, search system for the World Wide Web would likely consist of four functional modules: gatherer, indexer, search, and retrieval.
This chapter discusses each of the four functional modules of search system in detail. This would help us to understand the fundamental principle behind the search systems. Moreover it introduces several popular search systems for the World Wide Web, and discusses about how to select a search system.
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