README.md

SearchEngine

A Python basic Search Engine with building index using TF-IDF and NDCG, including Flask web app. UCI Information Retrieval Project.

1. Build index
   python build_index.py

2. This search engine
   run search.py to search our results and compare
   python search.py

3. Google search
   run python google_search.py to get google results
   python google_search.py

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SearchEngine Flask APP

Follow these steps to launch the search engine web application

1. pip install -r requirements.txt to install flask

2. sh launch.sh
   launch the search engine UI web application.

The screen shot of the search engine UI when execute query of "REST":