On the history and future of search
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A 30-minute overview of the 60-year history and future of search engines, surveying the major theories and techniques that have been tried. Covers which search ideas and technologies became permanent parts of practice and which ones were abandoned, drawing examples from historical developments in search systems.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:34Three pillars of search engines
- 8:5960 years of matching evolution
- 15:21Index compression and storage
- 24:01Merging search and databases
- 25:25Tokenization to neural networks
- 35:13Ranking: TF-IDF to ML
- 41:19Neural networks and search future
- 44:30Search system customization
- 48:01Summary
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