Information Retrieval in the Cloud
It addresses the problem of adapting information retrieval systems for cloud environments, relevant to organizations undergoing IT migration, but appears incremental as it discusses existing trends without introducing new solutions.
The paper examines how migrating IT infrastructure to the cloud affects distributed indexing and retrieval of textual and other data in organizations, focusing on the impact on information retrieval processes.
There has been a recent trend to migrate IT infrastructure into the cloud. In this paper, we discuss the impact of this trend on searching for textual and other data, i.e. the distributed indexing and retrieval of information, from an organizational context. Keywords: information retrieval (IR); federated search; cloud search.