I don't say it's not interesting, it's step forward compared to other articles in my collection [1][2][3] about the same subject allows to dive easily into the metrics and heuristics used in IR.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJwFHSeFg44
[2] http://aakashjapi.com/fuckin-search-engines-how-do-they-work...
Tom Mitchell's popular definition (from his book "Machine Learning"), which is is even quoted in the opening of the Wikipedia article on Machine Learning, comes to mind:
"A computer program is said to learn from experience E with respect to some class of tasks T and performance measure P, if its performance at tasks in T, as measured by P, improves with experience E" [1]
[1]: Mitchell, T. (1997). Machine Learning, McGraw Hill. ISBN 0-07-042807-7, p.2.
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning#Overview