3–5 Jul 2006
CERN, Geneva
Europe/Zurich timezone

Snaking the Web

4 Jul 2006, 10:10
30m
40-SS-C01 (CERN, Geneva)

40-SS-C01

CERN, Geneva

Business and Applications Business and Applications

Speaker

Mr Markus Franz (Metager2, SuMa-eV)

Description

Two research projects of NEC and the University of Hannover could not be realized because of technology faults. With Python a 18 year old student from Germany solved the problems and created a new-class metasearch engine for the WWW. The development process with problems like high-volumes of data, web crawling, performances iusses and other topics was easy with Python like with no other programming language.

Summary

This presentation will include the following:

  • Reasons Python based search engine development
  • Performance problems and the pythonic solutions
  • Managing masses of data
  • Designing a nice user-interface
  • Statistics and advantages caused by the use of Python

Primary author

Mr Markus Franz (Metager2, SuMa-eV)

Presentation materials