| Speaker Name |
Manu Konchady |
| Company |
Self Employed |
| Talk Title |
Building Cross Platform Tools for Searching the Web |
| Track |
/dev/tools |
| Class |
Introductory |
| Scope |
General |
| Synopsis |
It is now common to use the Web to research topics and
access information. The traditional approach to searching the web is
to use a search engine to get an initial list of URLs and manually
scan the list. This method has its limitations. A search engine has
its own priorities in judging relevancy to a query and the list
returned may not contain ALL the useful resources on the Web due to
the size of the list and the priorities of the search engine.
One solution to this problem, is the use of automated tools to collect
and organize information locally on a client machine. Several
commercial tools such as Bulleye and Copernicus attempt to
automatically collect relevant information from the Web. These
products still require an user to manually scan long lists of
documents for useful information.
This talk will propose the development of tools using Open Source
software such as Perl, Java, and the MySql database software to
address some of these problems. Tools such as these can greatly reduce
the time users spend searching for information on the Internet. They
can be customized to the user's preferrences and results can be sorted
accordingly. Information relevant to the user can be quickly accessed
without reading unecessary information.
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| Points |
The combination of Open Source software - Perl, Java, and
MySql provide a powerful set of tools to build software for searching
the Internet. The advantages of this combination of Open Source
software will be discussed.
Since this particular problem is based on processing large volumes of
text, the use of Perl and modules will be elaborated. Perl does not
seem to be popular in academia, but is widely used in Industry and the
advantages of programming in Perl over other languages will be
described. Optimizing the use of bandwidth by running multiple spiders
concurrently will also be described.
MySql is an Open Source database which is available on Linux, versions
of Unix, and the Windows platforms. It is easy to use and much smaller
than some of the other databases such as Oracle.
Finally, Java provides the tools to build a powerful user interface.
Perl does not yet have all the user interface features that Java can
provide.
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| Speaker Profile |
I received a PhD in Information Technology in 1996 with a
specialization in Parallel Computing and Simulation Models. I am
currently working independently and develop software for Internet
tools. I have worked in the software industry for over 15 years and
have been an user of Linux for about 4 years.
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