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Web Search and Advanced Internet Services

Web Search and Advanced Internet Services. 290N Class Introduction Tao Yang, 2013. Introduction. Web Search/Traffic User interests Web content Importance of search engine traffic Online advertisement Class Topics. Internet Users. Sales of Mobile Devices/PCs.

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Web Search and Advanced Internet Services

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  1. Web Search and Advanced Internet Services 290N Class Introduction Tao Yang, 2013

  2. Introduction • Web Search/Traffic • User interests • Web content • Importance of search engine traffic • Online advertisement • Class Topics

  3. Internet Users

  4. Sales of Mobile Devices/PCs http://www.businessinsider.com/the-future-of-mobile-deck-2012-3?op=1

  5. More Mobil Search (2012 Survey)

  6. Users’ Interests

  7. Content trend and ownership • Content consumption is fragmenting – nobody owns more than 10% of WW PVs • No single place will own all the content [Ramakrishnan and Tomkins 2007]

  8. Web Search Engine Market in USA (Jan 2012) Google: 66.2% Bing: 15.2% Yahoo: 14.1% Ask: 3% AOL: 1.6%

  9. Search Traffic is Important for Business

  10. 2012 Survey: Web Search Importance for Business

  11. Online advertising market, Worldwide

  12. Search query Ad

  13. Questions • Do you think an “average” user, knows the difference between sponsored search links and algorithmic search results?

  14. Course Objectives • Practice and experience for building search services and developing related mining applications • Broad topics in web mining and search engines, advertisement • Algorithms & System support • Workload: • 1 take-home exam • Group project (2 persons). • paper reviewing and presentation • Implementation/evaluation. Report. • Group HW exercises (Lucene/Solr+Hadoop)

  15. Course Topics • Web Search • Indexing, Compression, and Online Search • Ranking methods with text/ link/click analysis. Machine learning. • Text Mining • Duplicate analysis. Text Categorization and Clustering • Recommendation • Advertisement • Systems Support • Online servers and offline computation. MapReduce. • Caching. Crawling and document parsing. • Open source systems

  16. Expected Work • Tentatively Project 50%. Take-home exam 40%. 10% HW exercise (by a group). • Timeline • April 28: 1-page project proposal (plain email text). • May 1 week: • Meet with me and select paper(s) for reviewing. • Demo for HW • May 15 week: • Project progress & related papers presentation • June 3 week or earlier: • Project demo/interview • Final project slides/report. • Take-home exam. Problems based on class presentation/references/HW.

  17. References • Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze (MRS), Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press. 2008. • Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice by Croft, Metzler, Strohman (CMS) Addison-Wesley, 2010 • Selected papers • www.cs.ucsb.edu/~tyang/class/290N13

  18. Class Computing Resource • Triton supercomputer accounts: • Week 2 (April 10).Get a class account in Triton by emailing your name, UCSB email, and ssh public key with subject "CS290N ssh key" to scc@oit.ucsb.edu . Instructions on generating ssh keys can be found in http://cs.ucsb.edu/~hnielsen/cs140/ssh-keypair.html • CSIL sandbox disk space • /cs/sandbox/class/cs290n • /cs/sandbox/student/<username> • 290N class discussion group at Google.com (we will send an invitation based on the class list).

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