information retrieval
A term that refers to the art and science of indexing, searching, and recalling data in documents. Equally, "information retrieval" (IR) can refer to searching for documents themselves, metadata that describes documents, or searching within databases.
See also : full-text search semantic search
NetLingo Classification: Online Business
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