* Search Technology: Crawling, Indexing, Querying * Intent Behind Search: Informational, Transactional, Navigational * Monetary Angle: If you can figure out intent then you can know how to better market/advertise products to the consumer * Improving Current Search * Query, Google Web Browser, Back to Consumer PC * Crawling, Document Repositories * Indexing, What all information can be extracted from a Web Page * How can this info be organized? * How does crawler work? * HTML= Hyper Text Mark-up Language * URL= Uniform Resource Locator * Crawler: Google has to crawl over a page for it to show up on Google. * The Holy Grail of a Search Engine: Find true intent of the searcher\u201d * What makes this task difficult? * Metadata, Cues, Tags, Concept * Improving Search: First, Second, and Third Generation Search Engines. * Tracking links that users follow. * Search vs. Information Retrieval: Similarities and Dissimilarities * Monetary: Advertisements. Web Advertisements are cheaper. * Pg. 35 Graph. Customer Acquisition Costs. Who is paying? What are the stakes? * The local market: Everyone is shifting towards Google advertisement. Google is actually taking revenue away from other companies. * INTERNET vs. The WEB * Router: machine used to connect Internet to PC. Forwards messages to PC.