Search Engines and Web Navigation Option

Information

• Module plan
• Student web pages
• MSc in Advanced Computing Course Page

Timetable

Module Slides

• How the WWW operates - some history and terminology
• The structure of the web
• Link analysis
• Searching the web
• Navigating the web
• Web usage mining
• Recommender Systems and Collaborative Filtering
• Web 2.0 and Collective Intelligence
• Two sample exam questions

Lab Sheets for BSc and MSc Students - To be announced at start of term

• Please submit the coursework through Moodle as instructed on the lab sheets.
• Search engine optimisation and syndicating dynamic content.
• Ranking content with term TF-IDF.
• Link analysis; BSc, MSc.
• Calculating PageRank; BSc, MSc.
• Parsing and filtering of web log data and data analysis (optional); BSc, MSc.

Tutorial Help During Autumn Term at Times   

Module Text

• An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigation,  by M. Levene, published by Wiley, September 2010, 2nd Edition, ISBN: 978-0-470-52684-2.

 Links to additional resources

• A recent example of applying the capture-recapture method for measuring the number of scholarly documents on the web
• Short explanation of capture-recapture.
• Internet live statistics.
• Broder inlink data log-log fit. (The figure displays the result  of linear regression using the curve fitting tool of Matlab on the log-log transformed inlink data, generated from Broder's web data.)
• A Survey of Behind the Scenes Personal Data Sharing to Third Parties by Mobile Apps.

Technology Resources

• W3C HTML home page.
• Javascript
• Introduction to Java

Topic Resources

• Data Mining, Analytics, and Big Data Resources
• IEEE Internet Computing
• How Google Search Works
• Information Retrieval  book by C.J. van Rijsbergen
• Managing the Digital Enterprise - Open Courseware
• Scaling, Power Laws, and the Small World Phenomena in Networks Course
• Search Engine Information
• Structure of Information Networks Course
• W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
• Web Search Engines Course
• Web Information Retrieval
• Web Robots Page

Online Bibliographies

• DBLP - Computer Science Bibliography