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https://www.manning.com/books/relevant-search Also "taming text"
Playlist https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhMnuBfGeCDPtyC9kUf_hG_Qw...
Also from that lecture series, the low level is always IO. One disk read tends to dwarf n^2 in-memory algorithms.
And IO is all about tuning caches and hardware for the specific structural relationships in the data, the way in which it is accessed, and the hardware everything runs on.
Good luck.
Managing Gigabytes https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Managing_Gigabytes.ht... Old but good!
Lucene in Action, good introduction to Lucene, which can be helpful to learn ElasticSearch (most used FTS these days)
I’be been a search engineer for >10 years and this is always the first book I recommend.
“Relevant search” by Doug Turnbull and John Berryman, published by Manning, is THE best book to get started with tuning search engines. I’be been a search engineer for >10 years and this is always the first book I recommend. https://www.manning.com/books/relevant-search
At a general audience level, "Index" is on my list to read. It covers the invention of the index up to digital search engines. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/09/books/review-index-histor... "Introduction to Information Retrieval" is a textbook which is available online https://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/ Here's a review: http://glinden.blogspot.com/2009/02/book-review-introduction... Another textbook which IMHO is a b…