The following slides introduce various web search methods.

Slide 5.1: World Wide Web search services
Slide 5.2: Accessibility of information on the Web
Slide 5.3: Accessibility of information on the Web (cont.)

Slide 5.4: Information provided by HTML files
Slide 5.5: Automatic indexing methods
Slide 5.6: Inverted files
Slide 5.7: Search and ranking software
Slide 5.8: World Wide Web search technologies
Slide 5.9: Imperfect queries
Slide 5.10: Hyperlink exploration
Slide 5.11: Relevance feedback
Slide 5.12: Metasearch engines
Slide 5.13: SQL approaches
Slide 5.14: Content-based multimedia searches





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