A mashup of two different types of web search tools could make find the useful nuggets of information among all the grit on the Internet much easier.
We have all experienced the inconvenience of trying to search for something on the World Wide Web and the search engine spewing back thousands of results, none of which look very relevant. The addition of new addresses, such as Europe’s “.EU” domain mean that the number of web pages available will continue to grow and the problem of taming all that information will only get worse.
To help solve the problem, information scientists Liu Wei and Chen Junjie of the Taiyuan University of Technology, in Shanxi, China, have brought together to distinct types of computer software to help them build a new search engine that can intelligently crawl other search engines. They describe their new search robot in Inderscience’s International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering.
“Traditional search engines cannot cope easily with this rapid expansion of information resources, explains Junjie.
With the recent launches of
+ Ask 3D with Morph Technology*
we see this concept coming into practice. Actually, libraries have been deeply involved in federated search (one search, material from several disparate sources, duplicates combined, one results list) for a long time. Players in this space include:
+ MuseGlobal
+ Webfeat
and Fretwell Downing/OCLC Pica’s ZPORTAL are a few examples.
* Note: Gary is Director of Online Resources at Ask.com
Source: EurekaAlert
Thanks to Pete Weiss for the news tip.
See Also: Let’s Talk Metasearch, Federated Search, or Universal Search
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2007/05/16/lets-talk-federated-or-metasearch/
See Also: Some Might Also Say that Dialog’s DIALINDEX/OneSearch (Search Multiple Dialog Files Simultaneously) is a variation on this concept and has been available for many years.
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