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WISE
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Evaluation of Result Merging Strategies for Metasearch Engines
Result merging is a key component in a metasearch engine. Once the results from various search engines are collected, the metasearch system merges them into a single ranked list. T...
Yiyao Lu, Weiyi Meng, Liangcai Shu, Clement T. Yu,...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
MySearchView: a customized metasearch engine generator
In this paper, we describe MySearchView ? a system for assembling search engines into metasearch engines. With this system, any user can create a metasearch engine by simply letti...
Yiyao Lu, Zonghuan Wu, Hongkun Zhao, Weiyi Meng, K...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Distributed Web Search as a Stochastic Game
Distributed search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-speciļ¬c search engines provide search services, and metasearchers distribute userā...
Rinat Khoussainov, Nicholas Kushmerick
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Surrogate scoring for improved metasearch precision
We describe a method for improving the precision of metasearch results based upon scoring the visual features of documents' surrogate representations. These surrogate scores ...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Ophir Frieder, ...
WEBI
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Estimating Size of Search Engines in an Uncooperative Environment
The number of documents that are indexed by a search engine is referred to as the size of the search engine. The information about the size of each underlying search engine is ess...
Surendra Karnatapu, Karthik Ramachandran, Zonghuan...