Book description
This book is a second edition, updated and expanded to explain the
technologies that help us find information on the web. Search engines
and web navigation tools have become ubiquitous in our day to day use of
the web as an information source, a tool for commercial transactions and
a social computing tool. Moreover, through the mobile web we have access
to the web's services when we are on the move. This book demystifies
the tools that we use when interacting with the web, and gives the
reader a detailed overview of where we are and where we are going in
terms of search engine and web navigation technologies.
Mark Levene,
PhD, is Professor of Computer Science, head of the Computer Science and
Information Systems Department, and a member of the Information
Management and Web Technologies Group at Birkbeck, University of London.
His main current research interests are Web search and navigation, Web
mining, and Web interaction. Professor Levene is the coauthor of A
Guided Tour of Relational Databases and Beyond
and the coeditor of Web Dynamics
.
