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Information retrieval | Definition, Methods, & Facts | Britannica

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“Information retrieval, recovery of information, especially in a database stored in a computer. Two main approaches are matching words in the query against the database index (keyword searching) and traversing the database using hypertext or hypermedia links. Evolving information-retrieval” (the page’s own description)

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