search engine

This post is a summary of the paper: Web-Scale Responsive Visual Search at Bing, Hu et al., 2018 Introduction Visual search is an interesting research area. A visual search system ranks a list of visually similar images when presented with a query image. As in all search systems, latency and relevance of returned results are key metrics to evaluate such a system.

This is a well-known paper. It was published in 1998 and it describes Google as a prototype of a large-scale search engine. According to the authors, this paper was the first in-depth public description of a large-scale web search engine. The authors describe how to build a practical large-scale search system that exploits information present in hypertext, thus producing better search results than existing search systems.