Updating search engines using meta-updates

Abstract EN

Web search engines provide an extremely valuable service by indexing web content.

However, much of this content is fluid ; it changes, moves, and occasionally disappears, which leads to novel challenge to keep search engines up-to-date.

This paper investigates how to keep search engines up-to-date by proposing meta-updates technique.

Meta updates keep useful information about the behavior of a page to be provided to the spider of the search engine.

The proposed technique saves many overheads in complex probabilities calculation suggested in the related works.