"To understand the history and current landscape of Web-based Information Retrieval so that we have enough information to go into depth on the architecture and algorithms of web search engines"
What are characteristics of the web?
What are web search users like?
What is web spam like?
Go over names
GetSatisfication post about assignment #2
Survey Results
Review Cards
Explain "Content Assembled on the Fly"
requires special handling
Details for accessing openlab are linked from the notes on lecture 2
Attendance at Discussion will be recorded, but not graded
web crawler and web spider are used interchangeably