Towards The Next Generation Of Search Engines

Yi Fang, Santa Clara University

Stevenson Hall 1300
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Owing to the massive amount of data on the Web, search engines have become an indispensable means for people to find relevant information in their daily lives. The traditional paradigm of search being just a way of locating the top ten relevant web pages is undergoing changes. In this talk, I will introduce some recent developments of search technologies. One of them is entity-oriented search, which enables users to search for things and objects (such as people, places, and products) instead of documents and instantly get information that is relevant to the query. I will also discuss the convergence of search engines with other technologies such as recommender systems.