Week 10: Reading Notes

Week 10: Muddiest Point

Week 9: Reading Notes

IIR Chapter 19
19.2 Web Characteristics
1. Web graph

We can view the static Web consisting of static HTML pages together with the hyperlinks between them as a directed graph in which each web page is a node and each hyperlink a directed edge.

2. Spam

19.3 Advertising as the economic model

19.4 The search user experience:

1. User query needs

19.5 Index size and estimation

Chapter 21

21.1 The Web is as a graph

1. Anchor text and the web graph

21.2 Page Rank

1. Markov chains

2. The page Rank computation

3. Topic-specific Page Rank

21.3 Hubs and Authorities

1. Choosing the subset of the Web

Week 9: Muddiest Point

In this lecture, I got one question. When talking about the Document Surrogate, the length of complexity of URL was mentioned. But as we know, many URLs are generated automatically with the data from database and the URLs in general would only be copied and pasted by users, few people will type the whole URLs or change the URLs' query, in this case, how would the length of URLs influence the Document Surrogate?