SEARCH ENGINES: INFORMATION RETRIVAL IN PRACTICE (M-PIE)

　　Written by a leader in the field of information retrieval, Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice, is designed to give undergraduate students the understanding and tools they need to evaluate, compare and modify search engines. Coverage of the underlying IR and mathematical models reinforce key concepts. The book’s numerous programming exercises make extensive use of Galago, a Java-based open source search engine.

Ch 1 Search Engines and Information Retrieval
Ch 2 Architecture of a Search Engine
Ch 3 Crawls and Feeds
Ch 4 Processing Text
Ch 5 Ranking with Indexes
Ch 6 Queries and Interfaces
Ch 7 Retrieval Models
Ch 8 Evaluating Search Engines
Ch 9 Classification and Clustering
Ch 10 Social Search
Ch 11 Beyond Bag of Words