CSCI 3850 FOUNDATIONS OF WEB SEARCH TECHNOLOGIES (3 credits)
This course provides students a basic understanding of how search and information flow works on the web. Main topics include: document representation, inverted indexing, ranking of web search results, vector-space model, web graph, PageRank, search-based advertising, information cascades, and web crawling.
Prerequisite(s): CSCI 2030 and CSCI 2850 with C- or better, or instructor Approval. Not open to non-degree graduate students.