Dawn Anderson, an SEO who likes to listen to professors and PhDs give lectures about how search works, posted a poll asking if the SEO community thinks awareness of IR (information retrieval) is ...

Information Retrieval (IR), (more precisely, text information retrieval) is a branch of computer science that deals with the processing of collections of documents containing ‘free text’, such as ...

Nature Research Intelligence Topics Topic summaries Information and Computing Sciences Data Management and Data Science Information Retrieval and Web Search Information retrieval (IR) and web search ...

When we talk about information retrieval, as SEO pros, we tend to focus heavily on the information collection stage – the crawling. During this phase, a search engine would discover and crawl URLs ...