Search-Engine-Project

This is the Search Engine Project for CS 121, Group 20. This is a search engine for a selection of subdomains that belong to UC Irvine's School of ICS. It instantly (usually within 150 ms) shows top-ranking results among 55,000+ webpages.

Goup 20 members:

• Jack Yu
• Daniel Lan
• Joseph Russell Pon
• Ha Bach

The project has several segments:

• text extraction from HTML format
• tokenization and stemming
• index creation
• given a query, rank documents' relevance using Cosine Similarity

Web Search Interface

Visit this search engine website and simply type in your query and search. For example, try searching VR gaming, machine learning, the name of your favorite professor, and more...

How to reproduce the result?

1. Index Creation

• Download and unzip the directory containing information of all the scraped webpages.
• run M1 function inside main.py to create the full index file. This process may take some time.

2. Search Interface

• a) Search in Terminal
  • run M2n3 function inside main.py and interact with the prompt
• b) Host Webpage and Its Backend
  • run the command python3 flask_server.py in terminal. You can change the port inside flask_server.py as you wish.
  • visit the host machine's IP_address:port_number using a browser to access the Web search interface.