Title: Design of a Prospective Search Engine for RSS

Svilen Mihaylov
University of Pennsylvania 

Abstract:
RSS feeds are becoming increasingly popular way of delivering information with
users ranging from personal blogs to news sites. A significant increase in the
traffic generated by RSS feeds is projected. We focus our research on the
importance of efficiently disseminate and distribute new web content to
interested subscribers. In addition, as user demand increases, bottlenecks can
occur at the sites of popular feeds. Our goal is to design a efficient system
that can offload traffic from the publisher site and present a convenient and
reliable dissemination service, while minimizing certain cost aspects such as
number of machines and internet bandwidth. We also focus on providing ability
for aggregation of relevant information in the case of clients connecting with
mobile devices, as well as providing a classical retrospective search engine
based on previously collected data.