The Search Engine group conducts research into the large-scale storage and access of information in the form of documents, text, and multimedia. Research topics include compression, algorithms for information retrieval, genetic databases, databases for large-alphabet languages, indexing high-dimensional data, hashing for large datasets, and pattern matching.

The Search Engine group has developed significant new technologies for information retrieval. These are embodied in the SEG public-domain search engine, which will be available soon from this website. These techniques, which include advanced compression methods and high-performance indexing, have also been adopted for applications such as the major Web search engines. Selected source code from our applications is available on our projects page