Course Instructor: Paul Chirita

Syllabus:

This course will familiarize students with the general industry principles used today in building search engines.

It will cover all top relevant areas: Data collection, Index construction, Search results ranking, User interface design, Search engine evaluation, etc.

All aspects will be primarily discussed within the perspective of web search engines such as Google, but enterprise and desktop search engines will be addressed as well.

Last, but not least, students will learn adjacent technologies used in search engines such as Bayesian classifiers or Support Vector Machines