Faculty: Torsten Suel [e-mail]

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Web Exploration and Search Technology
Lab Department of Computer and Information
Science Polytechnic University Brooklyn, NY 11201

• Faculty Torsten Suel suel_at_poly.edu
• PhD Students Qingqing Gan
• Hao Yan
• Jiangong Zhang
• PhD Graduates Yen-Yu Chen (2006) -gt Yahoo
• Utku Irmak (2006) -gt Yahoo
• Xiaohui Long (2006) gt MSN Search
• Looking for additional PhD students

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WHERE?
Polytechnic University

• Brooklyn Poly, founded in 1854
• in downtown Brooklyn
• Engineering, CS, Management
• 1500 ugrads, 1400 grad students
• CS 16 tenure/t faculty, 40 PhD studs.
• Algorithms, Networks, Security, Software Eng.,
  Image/Vision/Graphics

WHAT?

• Databases ?
• Information Retrieval ?
• Web Search !!
• - core web search
• - related work in algorithms, systems,
  databases
• - emerging applications social
  networks, blogs, local search,

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WHAT EXACTLY?
core search
image video
blogs
mobile
desktop
low level stuff search engine guts

• Systems/Architectures/Scalability
• - efficient crawling, data distribution,
  indexing, query execution, link analysis
• Emerging Applications
• - geographic/mobile search, deep web
  search, blog/RSS search, P2P search

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Some Research Projects

• Web Spam
• - automatic
• - interactive

• Scalability of Large Search Engines

• can we do with less?
• scale to larger data?
• storage/indexing/mining
• of web archives

• Future Search Architectures
• - peer-to-peer as Google killer?
• - desktop/client based search
• - blogs/social networks/new media

Search Engine Research Cluster at Poly

• Geo / Local Search Engines

ODISSEA System Architecture
Example Google Local Search
Geo Search Research at Poly
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Some Recent Group Publications

• Search Engine Query Processing
• Three-Level Caching for Efficient Query
  Processing in Large
• Web Search Engines. X. Long, T. Suel. 14th WWW
  Conf., 2005.
• Optimized Query Execution in Large Search Engines
  with Global
• Page Ordering. X. Long, T. Suel. VLDB, 2003.
• Geographic Web Search
• Efficient Query Processing in Geographic Web
  Search Engines.
• Y. Chen, T. Suel, A. Markowetz. ACM SIGMOD,
  2006.
• Design and Implementation of a Geographic Search
  Engine.
• A. Markowetz, Y. Chen, et al. WebDB 2005
• Miscellaneous
• Efficient Query Subscription Processing for
  Prospective
• Search Engines. U. Irmak, S. Mihaylov et al.
  USENIX, 2006.
• Interactive Wrapper Generation with Minimal User
  Effort.
• U. Irmak, T. Suel. 15th WWW Conf., 2006.
• Efficient Query Evaluation on Large Textual
  Collections in a
• P2P Environment. J. Zhang, T. Suel. IEEE Conf.
  on P2P, 2005.