∞ Information

A is for "Academic Freedom" ..

Bots - Professional DISinformation Farms ..

Brainwashing, Thought Reform →

Collective Stupidity .. 

Expert vs Educated ..

False-Balance Media Bias ..

Foreign Influence Campaigns ..

Free Speech in the West ..

Free Speech vs Censorship ..

Genocidal Islamists ..

Information Retrieval ..

LeftTube & Algorithmic Hijacking ..

Mill - Free Speech ..

PISA Report ..

Post-Modernist Dismissal of Information ..

Predictive Modeling ↠

Preference Falsification - Private Truths, Public Lies (1997) ⇼

Reviving Higher Education ..

Skepticism ..

Stupidity - Functional Underperformance ..

Totalitarian Dystopias ..

Web's SCAM Upgrade ↠

Information Retrieval

2018 Data Mining: How You're Revealing More Than You Think - ScSh > .

2018 What Does Facebook Really Know About Your Personality? - ScShPs > .

Information Retrieval - Doyle >> .

Information retrieval (IR) is the process of obtaining information system resources that are relevant to an information need from a collection of those resources. Searches can be based on full-text or other content-based indexing. Information retrieval is the science of searching for information in a document, searching for documents themselves, and also searching for the metadata that describes data, and for databases of texts, images or sounds.

Automated information retrieval systems are used to reduce what has been called information overload. An IR system is a software system that provides access to books, journals and other documents; stores and manages those documents. Web search engines are the most visible IR applications.