Efficient Query Subscription Processing for Prospective Search Engines

• Utku Irmak, Polytechnic University, USA
• Svilen Mihaylov, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Torsten Suel, Polytechnic University, USA
• Samrat Ganguly, NEC Laboratories America, Inc., USA
• Rauf Izmailov, NEC Laboratories America, Inc., USA

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Current web search engines are retrospective in that they limit users to searches against already existing pages. Prospective search engines, on the other hand, allow users to upload queries that will be applied to newly discovered pages in the future. This paper studies the problem of efficiently processing large numbers of keyword query subscriptions against a stream of newly discovered pages.

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