Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images

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Summary: Best text available. Has no competition.
Review: This text sets the standard for future information retrieval texts and has replaced the Salton books as the canonical academic text.

The second edition is highly readable and contains a thorough updating of the algorithms and data structures in the field.

I like the text because of its readability, conciseness, thoroughness, and attention to detail. The comparisons of algorithms on realistic sized collections is unparalleled in other texts.

I have used this text for the past 5 years in a graduate level information storage and retrieval class but I believe it has a much wider audience due to the quality of writing.

Additionally, the free availability of the mg system which implements many of the best algorithms of the text allows the reader/student to take advantage of the technology without having to start from scratch.

Highly recommended.