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Ask HN: What are some good resources to get started with Information Retrieval?

• nostrademons 16y ago
  Managing Gigabytes is one of the more well-known textbooks... Really though - if you want to get started with IR, your best bet is probably to get a job at Google. This is one of those fields where industrial practice is light years beyond academic research, and once you get a job at Google in basically anything, it's relatively easy to transfer to Search and learn how the system works.
  • l0nwlf 16y ago
    I am not convinced though. I don't think nooglers are assigned to Google Search team. They won't expose their search-algorithm to a rookie.
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    • nostrademons 16y ago
      It's significantly easier to get into Google and then transfer to search quality than it would be to get into a graduate program, get the Ph.D, and then get the necessary data and machines to do top-level work in IR. Just look at the number of tenured professors that accept jobs at Google. FWIW, I've been working in Google Search Quality since I joined the company nearly two years ago. I don't work in ranking, but I have high-level knowledge of how the whole system works that's better than you'd get out of a textbook.
      • l0nwlf 16y ago
        After a bit of googling I found out that I was wrong in assuming that search-team of Google is reserved only for veterans and freshers are not allowed. Also it's a fact that you learn more from industrial exposure than that of textbooks. As for OP, I got a nice resource, which may help him currently: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/ir/ http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/ir/