Search and retrieval in the ICT context refer to two main challenges of content management: How to provide easy and accurate access to the tremendous amount of avalable information on the Internet. Search engine optimisation through the use of networking techniques, and user feed-back profiling and contextualisation are some of the issues to be tackled.

Search and retrieval is addressed in the ICT work programme 2011/12 (p. 21, 58) under the following challenges/objectives:

> Challenge 1:Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures

Objective ICT-2011.1.5 Networked Media and Search Systems
c) Multimedia Search

> Challenge 4: Technologies for Digital Content and Languages

Objective ICT-2011.4.2  Language Technologies
b) Information access and mining