Where can I learn more about the science of search engines?

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Channel: Google Search Central · 2012 · Science & Technology

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Hi Matt, What resources (textbooks, online PDFs etc) would you recommend to people interested in learning more about LSI, search engine algorithms etc? Tristan Perry, Cardiff, UK

The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
http://research.google.com/pubs/archive/334.pdf

More publications about information retrieval and the web:
http://research.google.com/pubs/InformationRetrievalandtheWeb.html

Modern Information Retrieval
http://books.google.com/books?id=HbyAAAAACAAJ

Managing Gigabytes
http://books.google.com/books?id=2F74jyPl48EC

Even more at Google Research:
http://research.google.com/

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