| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 2016 |
| Repository | github |
| Written in | C++ |
| Platform | Windows, macOS, Ubuntu |
| Type | Search engine indexing algorithm |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | bitfunnel |
BitFunnel is the search engine indexing algorithm and a set of components used in the Bing search engine,[1] which were made open source in 2016.[2] BitFunnel uses bit-sliced signatures instead of an inverted index in an attempt to reduce operations cost.[3]
- ^ Yegulalp, Serdar (September 6, 2016). "Microsoft open-sources Bing components for fast code compilation". InfoWorld.
- ^ Verma, Arpit (2016-09-07). "Microsoft Open Sources Major Components Of Bing Search Engine, Here's Why It Matters". Fossbytes. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
- ^ Goodwin, Bob; Hopcroft, Michael; Luu, Dan; Clemmer, Alex; Curmei, Mihaela; Elnikety, Sameh; He, Yuxiong (2017-08-07). "BitFunnel". Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. New York, NY, USA: ACM. pp. 605–614. doi:10.1145/3077136.3080789. ISBN 978-1-4503-5022-8.