In the early 1990s, history shows that the internet was beginning to take off and more people were introduced to it daily. But in those days, web URLs were not seen on billboards or posted on the side of vehicles. Information retrieval was done by going to one of the new search engine portals and […]

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In order for the internet to be of usage in the public realm, information retrieval interfaces had to be intuitive and easy to use. The first search engines in history started out on UNIX systems using TCP/IP protocol. Anyone who has worked on the UNIX systems in the 1990s knows that it was an operating […]

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From the very early history of computing, efficient and quick text indexing and information retrieval have always been a challenge. Computers held so much promise in the 1960s as a way to store massive information but that could not become a reality until the information retrieval methods advanced. So you can really begin search engine […]

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