Web Search Engine

Advanced Computing Concepts Group Project - COMP8547-4-R-2019F - University of Windsor

The project is structured in three modules:

1. react-searchkit: Frontend UI powered by React.js

2. search-engine-backend: Backend REST API developed using Spring Boot framework which retuns the search result

3. WebCrawler: Web crawler to crawl through pages

Techniques used:

• Web crawler with Jsoup
• Inverted index with Trie
• Regex
• Edit distance
• HashMap
• Quick Sort

Working Flow:

Trie Structure

Search HashMap Structure - Example