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 ...

During the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2025) in Padua, Italy this week (July 13-17, 2025), researchers from Bloomberg’s AI Engineering Group are showcasing their expertise in ...

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 ...

Search is dead, long live search! Search isn’t what it used to be. Search engines no longer simply match keywords or phrases in user queries with webpages. We are moving well beyond the world of ...

When you search for something online, do you often find that the results don’t match what you’re looking for? This happens because of problems with the way most search and information retrieval ...

Multimodal retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances AI retrieval by integrating text, images, and structured data for deeper contextual understanding. A typical multimodal RAG pipeline consists ...

Healthcare professionals used a complex combination of information retrieval pathways for health information exchange to obtain clinical information from external organizations. Primary data was ...

This chapter introduces the information retrieval skills that will allow you to make effective use of the databanks. The goal is to give you familiarity with basic operations. It will then be easy to ...