{"product_id":"9781627058124","title":"Scalability Challenges in Web Search Engines","description":"In this book, we aim to provide a fairly comprehensive overview of the scalability and efficiency challenges in large-scale web search engines. More specifically, we cover the issues involved in the design of three separate systems that are commonly available in every web-scale search engine: web crawling, indexing, and query processing systems. We present the performance challenges encountered in these systems and review a wide range of design alternatives employed as solution to these challenges, specifically focusing on algorithmic and architectural optimizations. We discuss the available optimizations at different computational granularities, ranging from a single computer node to a collection of data centers. We provide some hints to both the practitioners and theoreticians involved in the field about the way large-scale web search engines operate and the adopted design choices. Moreover, we survey the efficiency literature, providing pointers to a large number of relatively important research papers. Finally, we discuss some open research problems in the context of search engine efficiency.","brand":"Morgan and Claypool Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036911321328,"sku":"9781627058124","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781627058124_p0.jpg?v=1763865527","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781627058124","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}