Last updated on August 4th, 2024 at 06:00 pm
The paper A Search Log Analysis of a Portuguese Web Search Engine, by Miguel Costa and Mário J. Silva, was presented at INForum 2010 – Simpósio de Informática, in Braga, Portugal.
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Technical report documents the creation of a searchable web archive
Last updated on August 4th, 2024 at 06:22 pm
The results of this research were applied to create the Portuguese Web Archive that is publicly available since January 2010. It supports full-text search over 1 billion contents archived from 1996 to 2010. The developed software is available as an open source project.
Our beta-version search service was available 100% of the time
Last updated on August 4th, 2024 at 06:19 pm
- Our search is supported by a distributed system composed by 111 multi-thread processes
- We have 61 computers:
- 1.8 TB of memory;
- 122 processors (488 cores);
- 348 hard discs (320 TB).
- Try our search ove the past!
93% of the searches are answered in less than 5 seconds
Last updated on August 4th, 2024 at 06:20 pm
- 93% of the full-text searches performed on the Portuguese Web Archive were responded in less than 5 seconds.
- 95% of the URL searches were answered in less than 5 seconds.
- 73% of the user clicks are on the first page of results.
- We wrote 72 000 lines of code to improve the original search system based on the Archive-access project.
- Try our search!
Trends in the evolution of the Web: we have published a video about our study
Last updated on August 4th, 2024 at 06:21 pm
The presentation focuses on the following points:
- The Web
- Web Archiving and crawlers
- Web characteristics and its evolution within 5 years
- The importance of the study on Web trends in the design of tools that process its data
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