Thesis problem

[wickaph]

I've been having some problems finding a topic for my thesis. I was wondering if anyone can suggest one related to search engines. Btw, I'm a Computer science student.

Thanks in advance!

[french dread]

Mmmmh....why not "Does popularity equal relevancy?"

[wickaph]

Thanks for your reply. I really tried suggesting topics similar to this, and my adviser didn't approve.

Actually, I'm thinking something about whether there are weaknesses in the existing search engines. And what could they be? It's just that I'm not familiar with these so I cant formulate the thesis problem.

[wickaph]

are there any search engines specialized in a certain area only?

[french dread]

some food for thougt:

"Indexing the invisible web"
"Does bigger index mean better results for users?"
"Geolocalisation and better search"
"Spam : improving filtering for a better search"
"The race for freshness"
"Indexing and sorting non html documents"

[wickaph]

hmm... Thanks! Definitely, I'll start researching and hopefully can come up with something.

[french dread]

Perhaps you could tell us some more about your cursus and thesis, so that we can find other ideas?

[wickaph]

Anything related to Computer Science is okay. It can be an algorithm that has a weakness, then maybe I can find some way to fix or modify this and come up with a better one.

[Alan Perkins]

Great suggestions french dread!

I'll add "relevancy vs privacy : how to deliver personalised search results without being Big Brother" :)

[french dread]

Also a controversial one "The real influence of spam and over-optimization on relevancy : Is spam always bad for user?" :p

[wickaph]

i think that is better suited for a research work, or maybe a thesis for other courses:(

[amica_webmaster]

Wickaph,

Do you have a particular career interest? If there is something that you want to do when you finish school, that might help us to make some suggestions of topics that woule be of interest to your future employer.

Meta

[Bernard]

Weaknesses in search engine spam filters Applying linguistic analysis to web searchs

[wickaph]

thanks for all your ideas. i'll try to do some research on some of them, and see if i can come up with something

[polarmate]

Natural Language Processing and Search Engines