Abstract / Excerpt:

With the current scale and growth of the World Wide Web, the importance of being able to search for and locate Web pages effectively and accurately is of prime importance. Currently, the only feasible way a searcher can locate a particular Web-based source is by using a Web search engine. The generic large-scale search engines return results in the thousands, many of which lack relevance to the query; but searchers only tend to look at the first few results, hence an accurate rank is critically important. Additionally, large-scale search engines are unable to scale effectively with the expansion of the Web, especially the local scenario. Hence, is the need to develop an enhanced search strategy that will improve the accuracy and relevance of search results. With this, the proponents proposed to develop an enhanced search strategy for a local search engine that will mainly address the problem of irrelevant results returned by most local search engines. In order to achieve the objectives of the proponents, they took necessary steps in developing an enhanced search strategy. After much research and study has been done the framework of the new local search engine was finalized. After developing an enhanced search strategy, a number of tests were taken in order to show that the existing search strategy which is Level 2 Citation Graph addressed and solved the irrelevancy problems caused by existing search strategies. However due to time constraints, the proponents were not able to fully populate their database. For students who would like to pursue the study, the proponents encourage them to add new features to the local search engine, find better ways to enhance database access and explore on the possibility of enhancing or creating a new search strategy.

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Source Institution	Ateneo de Davao University
Unit	Computer Studies
Authors	Santos, Cyril Ray, Lo, Maria Cristina, Jiao, Pia Abigail Mitz
Page Count	9
Place of Publication	Davao City
Original Publication Date	March 1, 2002
Tags	Enhanced Search Strategy, Local Search Engine

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