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Text retrieval became a field of study in the sixties. Initially documents (typically legal or scientific) were '' Index ed'' by trained indexers, and assigned Keyword s. The keywords and a reference to the document would then be stored in a computerised Database , and the user could retrieve any documents to which given keywords had been attached. Both indexing and searching were relatively skilled occupations.

The advent of Full Text Search ing made the job of the indexer redundant during the 1980s . Text databases moved from being large and centralised to local and personal, thanks to the Personal Computer and the CD-ROM .

Text retrieval is a critical area of study today, since it is the fundamental basis of all Internet Search Engine s.