Inverted Index

Charlie Hull
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The data structure used by search engines for fast information retrieval. Looks just like an index in the back of a textbook!

Synonyms:
Search Index
Alternative Meanings:
  • Inverted index
    An index created as an outcome of a crawl of every word, entity and associated metadata in a way that facilitates the very fast retrieval of documents.



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