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1. R. Baeza-Yates and B. Ribeiro-Neto, Modern Information Retrieval, Addison Wesley Longman, 1999.
   • Lora Aroyo 2ID10: Information Retrieval at Eindhoven University of Technology
   • Peter Brusilovsky INFSCI 2140 - Information Storage and Retrieval at Pittsburg (fall 2005)
   • Rada Mihalcea CSCE 5200 Information Retrieval and Web Search at University of North Texas (2011)
   • Hinrich Schuetze Information Retrieval and Text Mining 2004 at Stuttgart
   • Luo Si CS 490 WIR: Web Information Retrieval and Management at Purdue
   • Nigel Ward CS 5319/4390: Search Engine Technologies at UTEP (spring 2009)
   • George Wilson Ling 467 at Georgetown
   • David Yarowsky 600.466 at Johns Hopkins

2. P. Baldi, Paolo Frasconi, and Padhraic Smyth. Modelling the Internet and the Web, John Wiley and Sons, 2003.
   • Ernest Davis G22.2580: Web Search Engines at New York University (fall 2007)

3. J. Battelle. The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture, Portfolio Hardcover, 2005.
   • Marti Hearst SIMS 141: Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business at Berkeley (fall 2005)

4. R. K. Belew, Finding Out About: A Cognitive Perspective on Search Engine Technology and the WWW, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
   • Peter Brusilovsky INFSCI 2140 - Information Storage and Retrieval at Pittsburg (fall 2005)
   • Bamshad Mobasher DS 575 / IS 575 at DePaul

5. C. P. Bourne and Trudi Bellardo Hahn. A History of Online Information Services: 1963-1976. The MIT Press, 2003; ISBN: 0-262-02538-8
   • Ray R. Larson SIMS 240: Principles of Information Retrieval at Berkeley (spring 2006)

6. S. Buettcher, Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack. Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines,MIT Press. (2010)
   • Luo Si CS 490 WIR: Web Information Retrieval and Management at Purdue

7. S. Chakrabarti. Mining the Web: Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data, Morgan Kaufmann, 2002.
   • Ernest Davis G22.2580: Web Search Engines at New York University (fall 2007)
   • Marti Hearst SIMS 141: Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business at Berkeley (fall 2005)
   • Gerhard Weikum Information Retrieval and Data Mining at MPI (WS 2007/08)

8. G. Chang. Mining the World Wide Web, Springer, 2001.
   • Ernest Davis G22.2580: Web Search Engines at New York University (fall 2007)

9. F. Cheong, Internet Agents: Spiders, Wanderers, Brokers, and Bots. Indianapolis, IN : New Riders, 1996.
   • David Yarowsky 600.466 at Johns Hopkins

10. B. Croft, , D. Metzler, and T. Strohman, Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice. Addison Wesley, February 2009.
    • Bruce Croft CMPSCI 646 at UMass
    • Jian-Yun Nie Web Based Information Architectures at Peking University (spring 2011)
    • Luo Si CS 490 WIR: Web Information Retrieval and Management at Purdue
    • Tomek Strzalkowski CSI 550: Information Retrieval at University of Albany
    • Nigel Ward CS 5319/4390: Search Engine Technologies at UTEP (spring 2009)

11. W. B. Croft (ed). Advances in Information Retrieval: Recent Research from the Center for Intelligent Information Rerieval. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000; ISBN: 0-7923-7812-1.
    • Ray R. Larson SIMS 240: Principles of Information Retrieval at Berkeley (spring 2006)

12. W. Frakes and R. Baeza-Yates. Information Retrieval: Data Structures and Algorithms. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 1992.
    • Ray R. Larson SIMS 240: Principles of Information Retrieval at Berkeley (spring 2006)
    • Ruixuan LI and Zhengding LU Modern Information Retrieval at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (date unknown)
    • David Yarowsky 600.466 at Johns Hopkins

13. E. Greengrass Information Retrieval: A Survey (2000)
    • Lora Aroyo 2ID10: Information Retrieval at Eindhoven University of Technology

14. D. Grossman online IR book
    • David Grossman CS 529 Information Retrieval at Illinois Inst of Tech
    • Ray R. Larson SIMS 240: Principles of Information Retrieval at Berkeley (spring 2006)

15. J. Han, Micheline Kamber. Data Mining - Concepts and Techniques, Morgan Kaufmann, 2000
    • Gerhard Weikum Information Retrieval and Data Mining at MPI (WS 2007/08)

16. M. Hearst, Search User Interfaces, Cambridge University Press. 2009. Book website at (free from the web)
    http://searchuserinterfaces.com/

17. W. R. Hersh. Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective. 2nd Edition. Springer-Verlag, 2003; ISBN: 0-387-95522-4
    • Ray R. Larson SIMS 240: Principles of Information Retrieval at Berkeley (spring 2006)

18. R. R. Korfhage. Information Storage and Retrieval John Wiley & Sons, 1997.
    • Peter Brusilovsky INFSCI 2140 - Information Storage and Retrieval at Pittsburg (fall 2005)

19. G. Kowalski and Mark T. Maybury. Information Storage and Retrieval Systems: Theory and Implementation, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
    • Peter Brusilovsky INFSCI 2140 - Information Storage and Retrieval at Pittsburg (fall 2005)

20. A. N. Langville and Carl D. Meyer. Google's PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings, Princeton Press, 2006.
    • Ernest Davis G22.2580: Web Search Engines at New York University (fall 2007)
    • Frank McCown COMP 475: Search Engine Development at Harding (spring 2009)

21. M. Levene. An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigation, Pearson, September 2005.
    • Mark Levene Search Engines and Web Navigation at Birkbeck University of London (fall 2011)
    • Frank McCown COMP 475: Search Engine Development at Harding (spring 2009)

22. B. Liu. Web Data Mining, Springer, 2011.
    • Ernest Davis G22.2580: Web Search Engines at New York University (fall 2007)

23. C. Manning, P. Raghavan, and H. Schutze, Introduction to Information Retrieval. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
    • Eugene Agichtein CS572: Information Retrieval and Web Search at Emory (Spring 2010)
    • William Arms CS 430/ INFO 430 at Cornell (2007)
    • Lora Aroyo 2ID10: Information Retrieval at Eindhoven University of Technology
    • Bruce Croft CMPSCI 646 at UMass
    • Brian Davison CSE 345/445 at Lehigh (2009)
    • Wu-Jun LI Web Search and Mining at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (fall 2011)
    • Frank McCown COMP 475: Search Engine Development at Harding (spring 2009)
    • Rada Mihalcea CSCE 5200 Information Retrieval and Web Search at University of North Texas (2011)
    • Raymond Mooney CS 371R at UT Austin
    • Pandu Nayak and Prabhakar Raghavan CS 276 / LING 286 at Stanford
    • Jian-Yun Nie Web Based Information Architectures at Peking University (spring 2011)
    • Luo Si CS 490 WIR: Web Information Retrieval and Management at Purdue
    • Tomek Strzalkowski CSI 550: Information Retrieval at University of Albany
    • WANG Bin Modern Information Retrieval at Institute of Computing Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences (fall 2011, site in Chinese)
    • Nigel Ward CS 5319/4390: Search Engine Technologies at UTEP (spring 2009)
    • Gerhard Weikum Information Retrieval and Data Mining at MPI (WS 2007/08)
    • David Yarowsky 600.466 at Johns Hopkins

24. G. Marchionini. Information Seeking in Electronic Environments, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
    • Peter Brusilovsky INFSCI 2140 - Information Storage and Retrieval at Pittsburg (fall 2005)

25. C. J. van Rijsbergen, Information Retrieval,online book at http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Keith/Preface.html
    • Peter Brusilovsky INFSCI 2140 - Information Storage and Retrieval at Pittsburg (fall 2005)
    • Ray R. Larson SIMS 240: Principles of Information Retrieval at Berkeley (spring 2006)
    • Bamshad Mobasher DS 575 / IS 575 at DePaul

26. G. Salton. Automatic text processing: the transformation, analysis, and retrieval of information by computer. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1988.
    • Ray R. Larson SIMS 240: Principles of Information Retrieval at Berkeley (spring 2006)

27. K. Sparck Jones and P. Willett, Readings in Information Retrieval Morgan Kaufmann, 1997.
    • Ray R. Larson SIMS 240: Principles of Information Retrieval at Berkeley (spring 2006)
    • Rada Mihalcea CSCE 5200 Information Retrieval and Web Search at University of North Texas (2011)

28. T. van der Weide Information Discovery, online book at http://osiris.cs.kun.nl/iris/web-docs/edu/ir1/ir1.pdf (2001)
    • Lora Aroyo 2ID10: Information Retrieval at Eindhoven University of Technology

29. I. H. Witten, Alistair Moffat, and Timothy C. Bell, Managing Gigabytes
    • Peter Brusilovsky INFSCI 2140 - Information Storage and Retrieval at Pittsburg (fall 2005)
    • Ray R. Larson SIMS 240: Principles of Information Retrieval at Berkeley (spring 2006)
    • Hinrich Schuetze Information Retrieval and Text Mining 2004 at Stuttgart

30. C. Wong. Web Client Programming. O'Reilly and Associates, 1997. (This web link should contain the complete text for the book, which is out-of-print)
    • David Yarowsky 600.466 at Johns Hopkins