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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this book.I'm also very interested in search engines this are two books I would recommend:Introduction to Information Retrieval: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Information-Retrieval-Ch...
Search User Interfaces: https://www.amazon.com/Search-User-Interfaces-Marti-Hearst-e...
I don't even know if anybody has written a book specifically about search at "web scale" (no MongoDB jokes here, please). But about the closest things I know of would be something like:https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Gigabytes-Compressing-Multim...
https://www.amazon.com/Information-Retrieval-Implementing-Ev...
https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Information-Retrieval-Ch...
^ Great answer. So far, this is the only correct one in the thread.I took Information Retrieval 101 in grad school and it was an interesting course. If you're curious to learn more, term frequency–inverse document frequency (tf–idf) is a good place to start. The underlying idea is surprisingly simple.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf–idf
Likewise with the core of Google's (original) ranking algorithm, PageRank, which is inspired by ideas like h-index.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
Also, the "standard" book which we used is quite readable: Introduction to Information Retrieval by Manning, et al.
https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Information-Retrieval-Ch...
I heartily recommend "Introduction to Information Retrieval": http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Information-Retrieval-Chr...Skim it once to collect vocabulary, then use it as a reference for IR algorithms.
Introduction to Information Retrieval: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0521865719/Convex Optimization: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0521833787/
Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262133601/
Read Peter Norvig's review for Foundations of ....http://www.amazon.com/review/R3GSYXSKRU8V17/
I haven't read any of these books, yet, highly recommended by some friends.
⬐ julesHere are video lectures by the author of the convex optimization book (Stephen Boyd):http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseinfo.aspx?coll=2db7ced4-39...
http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseinfo.aspx?coll=523bbab2-dc...
And video lectures by the author of the NLP book (Christopher D. Manning):
http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseinfo.aspx?coll=63480b48-88...