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1/15/2009 Lecture Notes |
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Kick-off: |
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Learning Objective: |
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"Finish our overview of the current web search landscape" |
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What is web spam like? |
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Take a quiz |
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Go over names |
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GetSatisfication posts |
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Survey Results |
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No cards today - quiz instead |
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Review Cards |
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Is it possible for a web search engine to find a page which is not linked? |
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Why are we using getsatisfaction rather than EEE? |
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useful service for you to know about post-graduation |
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Admin tools are stronger. |
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Just because a webpage is dynamically constructed doesn't mean it doesn't have static content. |
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A search engine can load it twice and see how much it changes before deciding whether or not to remember it |
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How does google keep track of you? |
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cookies possibly tied to a google account |
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also keeps track of queries independent of users |
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Microsoft |
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Don't confuse my lack of knowledge of MS products with a statement that they are bad |
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I largely don't use MS products because they do not facilitate my work as a computer science researcher, in my opinion they are geared toward business users. |
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e.g, equations editing |
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cost of software |
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access to source code |
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ability to change a technology |
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How does Google judge a high quality page? |
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for ads: |
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Video break |
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None today - quiz |