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New Class: Building a search Engine

by teja1990 on 1/23/12, 9:36 AM with 13 comments

• by molmalo on 1/23/12, 11:13 AM

  Looks interesting. Also, check out the link to "CS 373: PROGRAMMING A ROBOTIC CAR".

  By the way, in that video, Sergey Brin looks older and really tired!

• by matale on 1/23/12, 11:47 AM

  Why do none of these classes ever seem to provide enough information about the actual content? For example what programming language will be used in this class?

• by bambax on 1/23/12, 12:58 PM

  Week 3 is "Crawling the web" (the whole Web??!?) and Week 4 is "Responding to search queries"; shouldn't "Building an index" be somewhere in Week 3.5?

  Do people need to learn how to build a search engine for the Web, complete with crawling and PageRank, etc., or do they rather need to know how to build a search engine for a specific corpus of documents that they have sitting around somewhere...?