Information and communication technology (ICT) has made tremendous progress in the last two decades. The last decade of the 20th century commonly referred to our society as ¡®knowledge society¡¯. Even a common person became well aware of the explosion in…
Multimedia Data: EC 8
All the issues that we discussed in search were related to text and were based on keywords. If we are dealing with an image collection, or a video collection, or a music collection, or some other sensor data then will…
Live Data: EC 7
Search engines have to build their database and keep it updated. Most search engines have software robots that try to cover all web pages to build the database. These robots visit each web page and use sophisticated software techniques to…
Keyword in Search: EC 4
We will discuss some key issues that make current search limited. My goal is to explore how some of these limitations can be removed to make the next generation search significantly more efficient and effective. Today I will discuss use…
Evolution of Search — and future: EC -3
Current search approaches used in all search engines evolved from information retrieval. Information retrieval research was to look at the text documents and develop powerful indexing techniques so one could find where the information related to a key word is…