Search Engine Technologies for the World Wide Web and Intranets [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Bohdan O. Szuprowicz (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1566079934 | ISBN-13: 978-1566079938 | Publication Date: June 1997 | Edition: 1st

Rapid growth of the Internet and intranets has created access to a large quantity of information. This new 237-page CTR report discusses the information retrieval technology tools currently available and planned for the future, examines how the different categories of search engines work, and evaluates specific products and services.

Search Engines Explained

The rapid growth of Internet resources has led to an overwhelming amount of available information. According to some statistics, this information will nearly double every year. As the amount of information continues to grow, so does the complexity of finding and retrieving it.

CTR's new Search Engine Technologies for the World Wide Web and Intranets report offers an in-depth analysis of various types of search engine technologies that are used to navigate and retrieve documents from networked resources and databases.

The report describes the concepts behind information retrieval and the software tools used to develop search engines for the Internet, intranets, extranets, and the Web.

Information Retrieval Issues

Attempting to track specific information or data on the Internet often ends in frustration. Valuable time is wasted browsing through hundreds or thousands of Web sites.

Search Engine Technologies for the World Wide Web and Intranets offers a step-by-step guide to developing an effective search strategy. This strategy will help save time by minimizing unproductive browsing.

The report discusses other information retrieval issues, such as selecting the most appropriate search engine, maintaining a secure intranet, and sending out crawlers, spiders, and robots to collect data, compile indexes, provide user interfaces, and operate search service businesses.

Also included in the report is an extensive assessment of the leading text retrieval tool suppliers, such as ComQuest Software, Electric Book Technologies, Excalibur Technologies, Folio, Fulcrum Technologies, and Nexial Systems.

Search Engine Products

CTR's new report analyzes the various types of search engines on the market, which include: general search engines, general search directories, metasearch engines, and specialized search engines.

The report examines the advantages and disadvantages of each search engine category and provides a detailed description of several leading products.

The Future of Search Engine Technology

The Search Engine Technologies for the World Wide Web and Intranets report explores the latest advances in search technology: intelligent search engines and multimedia search engines.

Intelligent search engines incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) concepts, such as neural networks, case-based reasoning, natural language, and semantic networks. Multimedia search engines utilize images, sound, video, text, and graphics.

The report explains how these emerging search engines work and what they will mean to the future of information retrieval.

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From the Publisher

Computer Technology Research Corp. (CTR) is an internationally-recognized research and publishing company. Since 1979, CTR's reports have provided information on major technologies, trends, products, companies, and markets concerning the computer industry. Our reports assist executives, users, and vendors with making strategic decisions regarding information technology products and services.

Each CTR report includes management summaries, competitive analyses, technical product evaluations, vendor marketing strategies and case studies. CTR's reports are independently researched and present unbiased, objective views, strengths and limitations of products, and insight into technology directions. The reports provide managers with the vital quality information that is needed to successfully plan large- and small-scale information technology projects.

About the Author

Bohdan Szuprowicz is an authority on leading-edge, interactive multimedia technologies. He is the president of 21st Century Research, a consulting firm specializing in strategic technology research and investment. He also directs Interactive Multimedia Communications, a continuous research program dedicated to investigating new markets, ventures, and strategic implementation of new technologies.

He developed numerous concepts, applications, and product reports for McGraw-Hill/DATA PRO and is a member of the Workgroup Computing Multimedia Solutions services advisory board and completed "Multimedia Databases" and "Portable Multimedia Applications" reports. He is also the author of "Multimedia Networking" book published by McGraw-Hill Professional Book Division.

Mr. Szuprowicz hold a bachelor of science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology of the University of London and studied Industrial Management and Photojournalism at Columbia University in New York and UCLA. He was born in Poland, educated in France and England, and has traveled throughout the world in more than 60 different countries.

Product Details

• Paperback: 245 pages
• Publisher: Computer Technology Research; 1st edition (June 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566079934
• ISBN-13: 978-1566079938
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,122,826 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Bohdan Olgierd Szuprowicz
Biographical Sketch

Szuprowicz became an orphan at birth when his mother died from an infection following cesarean delivery. Her family kidnapped him and accused the father of poisoning his wife with the aid of a lover, a pharmacist. When a post-mortem confirmed their innocence, the baby was retrieved from a backward village in Lithuania. Bohdan grew up in a military compound where his father served as an artillery officer.
He became a true "child of war" when the Germans bombed the military bases of his native Grodno on the first day of WWII. The family evacuated with military convoys that were strafed by German aircraft and harassed by pro-Soviet terrorists until they reached the relative safety of Romania.
During his formative years Bohdan grew up on the beaches of Cote d'Azur inVichy France. He gained notoriety at that time as an unruly child who tore down Hitlerite posters promoting collaboration. When the Germans occupied the entire country after allied invasion of North Africa, the family escaped across the Pyrenees into Spain, where they were arrested and interrogated by Franco's pro-Nazi security services. Eventually they reached Lisbon and boarded a flying boat clipper for a night flight across the German-controlled Bay of Biscay to Ireland. After a brief internment in England as foreign aliens the family was able to rejoin the father already serving in allied forces in the UK.
As a teenager Szuprowicz attended several schools in Scotland where he matriculated and was invited to a reception in honor of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. His political statement at the time was to tear down a Soviet flag displayed on Princes Street during the first Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama, in protest of postwar treatment of Poland by the allies.
He engaged in farming with his father in East Anglia, but was soon on the move to London where he worked his way through the university. He also traveled in Europe to visit U. S. -backed Free Europe institutions engaged in Cold War propaganda and observed the Arab independence uprisings in Tangier and Morocco.
In 1957 he left for Canada, where he worked in the aircraft industry. Soon after the Russians launched the Sputnik satellite, he was recruited by Boeing in Seattle. Later he joined General Dynamics and IBM, whence he moved to the Center for Economic and Industrial Research Inc. headquartered in Washington DC. He began writing articles about progress of automation in many industries and became the editor of High Technology West, a subsidiary of the newspaper California Business in Los Angeles. This was followed by a round-the-world trip to evaluate computerization in many countries of Africa, Australasia and Europe and included a special visit to Vietnam to observe use of information technology under wartime conditions.
He founded the 21st Century Research consultancy and collaborated with Chase Manhattan Bank in setting up a market research operation to evaluate opportunities in China, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. He traveled frequently to those areas and crossed Checkpoint Charlie to East Berlin on several occasions. He also toured South Africa to observe apartheid environments and met with independence fighters in Namibia. His work on network planning earned him an invitation to present it at the International Symposium on Operations Research for Developing Countries in Paris.
As a result of his experiences and research into geopolitics, he published "Doing Business with People's Republic of China" and "How to Avoid Strategic Materials Shortages" with John Wiley & Sons, as well as "How to Invest in Strategic Metals" with St. Martin's Press. He also published "Multimedia Networking" with McGraw-Hill, which included Japanese and Korean editions and "Multimedia Tools for Managers" with AMACOM. He collaborated for several years with Computer Technology Research, which published corporate reports on Internet and networking technologies.
For several years Szuprowicz was managing editor of several newsletters on Internet technology applications and a columnist for Financial Sentinel, Moneyworld and other magazines. He also published "Supergrowth Technology USA," an investment newsletter, and consulted with many corporations on technology markets.
He also published hundreds of articles worldwide in journals such as Les Affaires, Atlanta Constitution, Australian Financial News, Barron's Weekly, Bull & Bear, Business South Africa, California Business, Canadian Business, China Business Review, Christian Science Monitor, Computerworld, Denver Post, Dun's Review, Eurofinance, Financial Post, Investment Dealers Digest, IPO Reporter, Japan Economic Journal, National Investment & Finance of India, Newsday, Newsweek International, New Scientist, Oficinas, Singapore Times, Skrzydlata Polska, Usine Nouvelle, Wall Street Microinvestor, Wall Street Transcript, ZeroUno and many others.
He has been a frequent speaker, panelist and moderator at international conventions, symposia and conferences. He holds a BS degree from the Imperial College of Science and Technology of the University of London. He also did postgraduate work in journalism and management at Columbia University in New York and UCLA in California.
Szuprowicz is an active member of the Sarasota Fiction Writers Club, British Schools and Universities Club, the Schiehallion Club of Kinloch Rannoch, and was previously a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

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Customer Reviews

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68 of 70 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Decimal place mistake on the price of this book, February 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Search Engine Technologies for the World Wide Web and Intranets (Paperback)

This book is worth $28.50, not $285.00. For this price, I expected a technical, in-depth exploration of search engines, and instead got a pleasant but lightweight overview of the technology. This publisher should be drawn and quartered.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Lightweight Search Engine Analysis, March 31, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Search Engine Technologies for the World Wide Web and Intranets (Paperback)

This book would be an intro for someone that had no idea what asearch engine was. This book is a work that would have beenacceptable when consumer's were just starting to realize the potential of the Internet. I found the book not informative enough to really be of any help. I'd rahter spend my $ in labor doing a search on the web and getting more in depth information.