Energy Efficiency in Web Search Engines

Abstract

Today, Web search is a frequent action in the everyday life of many people. To perform it on a large scale, Web companies need energy-hungry data center, which raise environmental and economical challenges. For these reasons, Green Information Retrieval promotes energy and energy-cost awareness in contemporary Web search engines. In this document, we propose to further the research on Green Information Retrieval, which is still at its early stage. Moreover, we illustrate our first results in evaluating and improving the energy efficiency of search servers.

Contributors

Matteo Catena

Conference

Publication date: September 2015

Publication date (Print): September 2015

Pages: 1-2

Affiliations

Gran Sasso Science Institute

67100 L’Aquila, Italy

National Research Council of Italy

56124 Pisa, Italy

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/FDIA2015.1

Copyright statement: © Catena. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of the 6 ^th Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access 2015

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Conference name: Sixth BCS-IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA 2015)

Conference acronym: FDIA 2015

Conference number: 6

Conference location: Thessaloniki, Greece

Conference date: 31 August - 4 September 2015

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Future Directions in Information Access

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing