January 30, 2007
A great new (to me) phrase – “Adversarial Information Retrieval”
I’ve just discovered a great new phrase – adversarial information retrieval. It’s not really new, since papers are now being accepted for what will be the third annual conference on the subject. But it seems to have gained currency over the past few months.
Edit: The term seems to have been coined in 2000.
I think this area is really where the bulk of the research into public search engine algorithms goes. And that’s another way of saying that web and enterprise search are very different things.
Categories: Categorization and filtering, Search engine optimization (SEO), Search engines, Spam and antispam
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