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Search Engine

My solution for Web intelligence (2DV515) assignment 3 at Linnaeus University.

Requirements

Grade E

• Implement a basic search engine that index all pages in the Wikipedia dataset (see Datasets page)
• Search queries shall only contain single words
• Results shall be ranked using the word frequency metric
• The user shall input the search queries in a web client, and display the search results returned from the server
• Display the top 5 search results with page and rank score
• Implement the system using a REST web service where:
  • client sends a request to a server
  • the server responds with json data
  • the json data is decoded and presented in a client GUI

Grade C-D

• It shall be possible to use search queries of more than one word
• Results shall be ranked using: score = word_frequency + 0.8 * document_location
• Display the top 5 search results with page and rank score

Grade A-B

• Implement the PageRank algorithm and use it to rank the search results
• Run the algorithm for 20 iterations
• Results shall be ranked using: score = word_frequency + 0.8 * document_location + 0.5 * pagerank
• Display the top 5 search results with page and rank score

Get started

npm install

Will install all dependencies for both client and server.

npm start

Will start both client and server.