San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks Master's Projects Master's Theses and Graduate Research Spring 5-8-2020 Improved User News Feed Customization for an Open Source Search Engine Timothy Chow San Jose State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/etd_projects Part of the Databases and Information Systems Commons Recommended Citation Chow, Timothy, "Improved User News Feed Customization for an Open Source Search Engine" (2020). Master's Projects. 908. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31979/etd.uw47-hp9s https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/etd_projects/908 This Master's Project is brought to you for free and open access by the Master's Theses and Graduate Research at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master's Projects by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Improved User News Feed Customization for an Open Source Search Engine A Project Presented to The Faculty of the Department of Computer Science San José State University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Science By Timothy Chow May 2020 1 © 2020 Timothy Chow ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2 The Designated Project Committee Approves the Master’s Project Titled IMPROVED USER NEWS FEED CUSTOMIZATION FOR AN OPEN SOURCE SEARCH ENGINE by Timothy Chow APPROVED FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE SAN JOSÉ STATE UNIVERSITY May 2020 Dr. Chris Pollett Department of Computer Science Dr. Robert Chun Department of Computer Science Dr. Thomas Austin Department of Computer Science 3 ABSTRACT Yioop is an open source search engine project hosted on the site of the same name.It offers several features outside of searching, with one such feature being a news feed.