IC
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
—In spite of numerous search engines available on the web, no single engine is capable of performing “better” under all circumstances. This being the case, metasearch engines...
CIKM
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
1999
Springer
When a query is submitted to a metasearch engine, decisions are made with respect to the underlying search engines to be used, what modifications will be made to the query, and ho...
CIKM
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2001
Springer
Given a large number of search engines on the Internet, it is di cult for a person to determine which search engines could serve his/her information needs. A common solution is to...
WEBI
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2004
Springer
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...
WISE
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
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...