Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges as they need to process thousands of queries per second over billions of documents. To deal with this heavy workloa...
We introduce a stricter Web community definition to overcome boundary ambiguity of a Web community defined by Flake, Lawrence and Giles [2], and consider the problem of finding co...
B-trees are the data structure of choice for maintaining searchable data on disk. However, B-trees perform suboptimally ? when keys are long or of variable length, ? when keys are...
Michael A. Bender, Martin Farach-Colton, Bradley C...
A novel Hardware Assisted Top-Doc (HAT) component is disclosed. HAT is an optimized content indexing device based on a modified inverted index structure. HAT accommodates patterns...
Prior research into search system scalability has primarily addressed query processing efficiency [1, 2, 3] or indexing efficiency [3], or has presented some arbitrary system arch...