Thorsten Joachims
Cornell University
Department of Computer Science
Striver has a rather minimalistic query syntax. It accepts
keywords
no query operators
ignores upper/lower case
An examples of well-formed query are
machine learning
striver
admissions
home page of claire cardie
cs678
Striver will try and match this query to documents that fit best. Typically, documents containing both words will be ranked higher than those with only one word. However, other factors influence the ranking. In particular,
when a document was last updated
how popular a document is
how other users with similar queries behaved
on which server the page is located
etc.