Temporal Search Engine

Introduction

The use of World Wide Web has increased exponentially over the years. The World Wide Web has become an information distribution medium for academic and commercial environments as well as communities of people who share interests in a wide variety of topics. The URLs of the pages of interest to the user can be saved as bookmarks or favorites so that they can be visited conveniently. How does a user know when the pages have changed? If the users know that pages contain data, which are updated every minute, they may visit the pages often. Other pages maybe ignored or browsed by the user only to find they have not changed. How does a user access an old version of the page that he is viewing or find a page that has since been moved or deleted? The Temporal Search Engine tracks changes to the documents on the Web over time, maintains a history of document versions and highlights changes to subsequent versions of each document.

Click on "System Overview" for an overview of the Temporal Search Engine and the most recent work on it.

Click on "Demo" to see a demonstration of the search engine.