Google at the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial

Monika Henzinger to "offer an overview of the search engine of the future"

[geckofuel]

Besides Google being present(represented by Monika Henzinger), it looks like one of the main themes of the conference is going to be AI applications on the web.

Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
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AI and the Web - Special Track

The Past, Present and Future of Web Information Retrieval
Monika Henzinger, Google, Inc., USA

Web search engines have emerged as one of the central applications on the Internet. In fact, search has become one of the most important activities that people engage in on the the Internet. Even beyond becoming the number one source of information, a growing number of businesses are depending on web search engines for customer acquisition. The first generation of web search engines used text-only retrieval techniques. Google revolutionized the field by deploying the PageRank technology - an eigenvector-based analysis of the hyperlink structure - to analyze the web in order to produce relevant results. Moving forward, Google's goal is to achieve a better understanding of a page with a view towards producing even more relevant results. This presentation will describe these techniques, the main challenges, and will offer an overview of the search engine of the future.

[vitaplease]

Thanks, will be interesting to get hold of that paper.

[lazerzubb]

Funny that Monika is representing Google, i would have thought Peter Norvig would be the perfect person there.