A B2B Search Engine : Technical Report Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC)

In this report, we describe a business-to-business search engine that allows searching for potential customers with highly-specific queries. Currently over 1,300,000 pages from more than 65,000 different company Web sites in the D-A-CH area are indexed, but the solution scales to much larger document collections. While the query processing is handled by the search server Elasticsearch, the core contribution of the prototype is a novel interface that allows non-expert users to compose very specific and complex queries in an intuitive way.