
Advanced Metasearch Engine Technology
Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Published on 6. December 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
129 pages
978-1-60845-192-0 (ISBN)
Description
Among the search tools currently on the Web, search engines are the most well known thanks to the popularity of major search engines such as Google and Yahoo!. While extremely successful, these major search engines do have serious limitations. This book introduces large-scale metasearch engine technology, which has the potential to overcome the limitations of the major search engines. Essentially, a metasearch engine is a search system that supports unified access to multiple existing search engines by passing the queries it receives to its component search engines and aggregating the returned results into a single ranked list. A large-scale metasearch engine has thousands or more component search engines. While metasearch engines were initially motivated by their ability to combine the search coverage of multiple search engines, there are also other benefits such as the potential to obtain better and fresher results and to reach the Deep Web.
The following major components of large-scale metasearch engines will be discussed in detail in this book: search engine selection, search engine incorporation, and result merging. Highly scalable and automated solutions for these components are emphasized. The authors make a strong case for the viability of the large-scale metasearch engine technology as a competitive technology for Web search.
The following major components of large-scale metasearch engines will be discussed in detail in this book: search engine selection, search engine incorporation, and result merging. Highly scalable and automated solutions for these components are emphasized. The authors make a strong case for the viability of the large-scale metasearch engine technology as a competitive technology for Web search.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
San Rafael
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 187 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-60845-192-0 (9781608451920)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
- Introduction
- Metasearch Engine Architecture
- Search Engine Selection
- Search Engine Incorporation
- Result Merging
- Summary and Future Research
- Metasearch Engine Architecture
- Search Engine Selection
- Search Engine Incorporation
- Result Merging
- Summary and Future Research