Hello, CompSoc minions. Week 5 has appeared, and with it comes our last talk of the term.

Being Google: Building your own search engine from scratch ==========================================================

Tuesday 22nd May, 20:30 Keble College, Pusey Room (off Pusey Quad; map of Keble [0])

Tom Dyson, of Torchbox [1], will talk about the challenges involved with parsing and indexing text, along with code examples and details of real world implementations.

It should be a good talk; Tom has several examples of his own, as well as showing us things drawn from the big giants of the searching and indexing industry.

If you have no idea where the Pusey Room is, don't fear; there will be someone hanging around Keble's porters' lodge.

[0]: http://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/about/tour [1]: http://www.torchbox.com/

While that may be all the talks for the rest of the term, there's no need to worry! There's still the TGM to come in week 7, and we'll have a fully-packed term in Michaelmas.

As a final note, it is required that you now go and read http://xkcd.com/c262.html. That is all.

Andrew