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Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines (MIT Press)
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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this book.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 bit lower level is "Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines". The book website is down for me right now, but you can find it on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Information-Retrieval-Implementing-Ev...
Another commenter linked to "Relevant Search", which is great if you want to learn how to effectively use a search engine to improve relevance (as opposed to how to implement a search engine). It's old, but another book in that vein that was really helpful for me earlier in my career is Lucene in Action: https://www.amazon.com/Lucene-Action-Second-Covers-Apache/dp...
⬐ driscoll42Going to second the rec on "Index", it's a very understandable, well researched book that the general audience or even a skilled practitioner would enjoy.