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Controlling the robots of Web search engines

Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems, 2001
Robots are deployed by a Web search engine for collecting information from different Web servers in order to maintain the currency of its data base of Web pages. In this paper, we investigate the number of robots to be used by a search engine so as to maximize the currency of the data base without putting an unnecessary load on the network.
Zhen Liu, Ph. Nain, J. Talim, Edward G. Coffman   +3 more
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The Web, the Home and the Search Engine

2011
The web search engine has come to occupy a central position in our information-seeking habits as citizens. This chapter explores the genesis of the idea of a search engine, and how this mechanism has developed in the web context. Search engines have adapted to the world of the web (in particular, to users and to the uses to which they have been put ...
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