Search Engine
- the ultimate search engine, … would understand exactly what you need and give back exactly what you want
- is both:
- Index Server is assigned the task of ‘crawling’ your content and building up an Index of keywords and phrases
- Search Server then uses this index to respond to user searches and suggest results
Search Engine - Steps
- analyze the meaning of words in the search query
- matching them to the contents of the domain
- understanding what content is most likely helpful and reliable
these 3 steps require some knowledge about Natural Language Processing (NLP) - Computational Linguistics and Linguistics