Looks like a great introduction. My copy of Modern Information Retrieval (1999) is starting to show its age as well and from glancing through the table of cont

Looks like a great introduction. My copy of Modern Information Retrieval (1999) is starting to show its age as well and from glancing through the table of contents, as pointed out in Greg's post, this really seems to hit a lot of the recent trends in IR. Up to chapter 11 is kind of a review of traditional IR and then from chapter 11 on it has a pretty impressive chunk of IR from the last decade (which is often what's missing in introductory texts). Added to my Amazon wishlist. :-)