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tuckdiddy, you should try one of these books:
Modern Information Retrieval
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Addison Wesley, 1999.
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Man, someone beat me to Baeza-Yates already... this book is the Bible of IR. My senior year in college I took a class in agent based inforamtion retrieval. It was a really cool concept. Instead of having one system that indexes a corpus and running the IR engine, you can have a distributed collection of agents that does each a little on its own to make better results. There's all kinds of complexity in recombining weighted results and determining who does what. Actually, if you're interested, you should check out SIRE
http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~cost/sire/... Scott's self-contained IR engine in a box.