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