information retrieval

Noun

 * 1)  The science of searching for information in documents, searching for documents themselves, searching for metadata which describe documents, or searching within databases, whether relational stand-alone databases or hypertextually-networked databases such as the World Wide Web.

Related terms

 * document retrieval

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 信息檢索, 資訊檢索
 * Finnish:
 * French: recherche d'information
 * Japanese: 情報検索
 * Russian: информацио́нный по́иск