A 远期指数远期指数 (or just index) is the 文件清单, and which words appear in them. In the web search example, Google crawls the web, building the list of documents, figuring out which words appear in each page.
If you name the TOC (Table of Content) of a book as index, then you should call the index at the end of book as "inverted index". Or, in other side, you can call the TOC as inverted index.
但是要做一个反向索引,你必须抓取所有的10个网页(阅读10章) ,然后从每个文档列表中提取每个单词,并找出哪些文档包含这个单词。So this is like going backward once you have crawled the webpages(read chapters of the book).所以它被称为反向指数。
Forward index handles updates easily by reflecting the changes only in the corresponding document index, whereas in the inverted index, the same change has to reflect in multiple positions across the inverted index.