Where can I find materials about indexing and page ranking?

Question

I'm working on a large search engine system.

However, I'm not familiar with the background.

Where can I find materials about indexing and page ranking?

Answer 1

Modern information Retrieval

A very known and a good book that will introduce you to these concepts.

Answer 2

You can always look at the google research stuff. It is naturally very intense stuff but interesting none the less.