Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and index.
Contents
Introduction to web search engines -- Crawling, indexing, and query processing -- Ranking webpages by popularity -- The mathematics of Google's PageRank -- Parameters in the PageRank model -- The sensitivity of PageRank -- The PageRank problem as a linear system -- Issues in large-scale implementation of PageRank -- Accelerating the computation of PageRank -- Updating the PageRank vector -- The HITS method for ranking webpages -- Other link methods for ranking webpages -- The future of web information retrieval -- Resources for web information retrieval -- The mathematics guide.