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Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice

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It's great for introduction to the Information Retrieval.

The former part of the book is filled with very good idea and clues for the information retrieval, for example, the characteristic of word or text, rank, page | site revisits, rough search engine architecture.

But the latter part of the book is so~so~.
The equations are good but the book doesn't explains the derivations of them and it seems that the book almost just lists the summations of the the Page Rank or Word Rank up.

In short, Good, Interesting~!

A clearly written and well-structured introduction to the science and technology of search engines. The book covers all aspects of search engines from crawling to the web all the way to the ranking and presentation of the result list in a clear, well-structured and rigorous fashion. The book includes the major algorithms and data structures, as well as explaining the mathematical models of ranking results, categorization and clustering. Practical problems like character encoding, document formats and multilingual retrieval are addressed in sufficient detail. The focus of the book is on the standard approaches in full-text search engines, and the final chapters give brief introductions to related topics like audio, image and music retrieval and emerging fields like social search and peer-to-peer search. The book contains plenty of references to the latest research. The book can be highly recommended for students of computer science.

This is probably one of the best IR textbooks I have seen. I used a pre-release edition for a text technologies course at the University of Edinburgh this year. The explanations are clear and interesting, the examples are compelling, and the authors' style is engaging. I'd recommend this book for any course on information retrieval.

This is easily one of the best books I never read all the way through, but kept my attention long enough for the store manager to have to physically remove me from the bookstore cos I didn't have the cash to buy it. The library is in another building, sir. That's okay, I'm not a student here anyway. Is Bruce Croft related to Lara Croft?