Only text objects are supported at this point. For each page, it extracts keywords which are stored in resource database. New sites are added to target list upon encounter. For each HTML file, indexer checks if an index exists in resource database. If not in resource DB, indexer adds new index entry.
All information is stored in tables.
Set of URLs sent to ranking algorithm . This algorithm performed equally good or better than three others but easier to implement. The result of the search is a set of URLs that are ranked in terms of their relevance to the keywords in the query. The user interface is Web-based and supports navigating through the answer space. Meta-data for each URL should help users decide if it is worth loading the underlying document.