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In the previous chapters, we focused on the use of a single machine to provide service to run an information retrieval. In Chapter 6, we discussed the use of a single machine with multiple processors to improve performance. Today, document collections are often scattered across many different geographical areas. Distributed Information Retrieval Systems (DIRS) provide access to data located in many different geographical areas on many different machines (see Figure 7.1). The search engines that exist on the World Wide Web (WWW) are examples of distributed information retrieval systems.
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Grossman, D.A., Frieder, O. (1998). Distributed Information Retrieval. In: Information Retrieval. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 461. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5539-1_7
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