Transcript Accelerating Swarm (formerly known as quicksearch)

By Morris Wright, Brian Chapman and Ryan Caplet
Recap
Crawler-Based Search Engine
 Limited to a subset of Uconn’s School of
Engineering Websites
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 Roughly 3000 Pages
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Resources: Web server and MySQL
servers provided by ECS
 Database holds ~5000 keywords
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Languages Used: HTML, PHP, SQL,
Perl
Features
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Runs searches on multiple words
 Ex. “uconn sports” runs a search on the keyword
“uconn” and “sports”
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Ranks results based on frequency and
relevance of words
 Ex. For “uconn sports”, websites containing both
words will be ranked higher than websites
containing one or the other
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Despite the size of the database, it takes a
matter of seconds to display the results
Interface – Main Page
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Main page contains a text box used for
search function
Interface – Result Page
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Search box
List of URLs
# of Results
Part of URL used as Title instead of the website’s
Title
Interface – Result Page
10 Results per page
 Page number
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phpMyAdmin Database
phpMyAdmin Indexer
Some Examples – help
Total Results: 30
 1) Cseoveriew
 2) Dewolf06
 3) Engrvote
 4) Doctucapturehonors
 5) Endicottstory
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Some Examples – me
Total Results: 9
 1) Crosby07
 2) Dewolfjeffersretiring
 3) Endicottstory
 4) Andreaprof
 5) Careerfairfall07
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Some Examples – now
Total Results: 12
 1) Briefhistory
 2) Endicottstory
 3) Careerfairfall07
 4) Biogridnews
 5) Alumniprofilescott
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Some Examples – help me now
Total Results: 40
 1) Endicottstory
 2) Crosby07
 3) Alumniprofilescott
 4) Dewolfjerrersretiring
 5) Docstucapturehonors
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Behind the scene functions
Does not show duplicate URLs
 Checks for capitals and makes
lowercase
 Removes any symbols
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 “, ‘ , ? , ! , @ , etc….
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QuickSort algorithm used to sort
Frequencies from largest to smallest
Known Bugs
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When the user types in “ or ‘, no results
display but slashes (/) appear in the
search box. The “previous page” button
becomes active and when pressed,
more slashes appear in the search box.
End
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Website:
http://quicksearch.engr.uconn.edu/