What is the essential reading on search engine development?
I have found help in these:
Books:
Modern Information Retrieval
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Berthier Ribeiro-Neto
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hearst/irbook/
Managing Gigabytes
Ian Witten, Ian H. Witten, Allistair Moffat, Timothy C. Bell
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/mg/
Webbooks:
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
C. J. van RIJSBERGEN
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Keith/Preface.html
Articles:
The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
Larry Page, Sergei Brin
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/brin98anatomy.html
Building a Distributed Full-Text Index for the Web
Sergey Melnik, Sriram Raghavan, Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-Molina
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/478324.html
The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web
Larry Page,Sergey Brin, R. Motwani, T. Winograd
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/page98pagerank.html
Search Engines and Web Dynamics
Knut Magne Risvik, Rolf Michelsen
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/risvik02search.html
Focused Crawling Using Context Graphs
M. Diligenti, F.M. Coetzee, S. Lawrence, C.L. Giles, M. Gori
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/diligenti00focused.html
Authoritative Sources in a Hyperlinked Environment
Jon M Kleinberg
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/kleinberg99authoritative.html