- Jennifer Levin
- Research Papers
- Meta Search Engines
Introduction to Metasearch Engines & Result Merging Strategies
Introduction to Metasearch Engines and Result Merging Strategies: A Survey
MetaSearch is utilizing multiple other search systems to perform simultaneous search. A MetaSearch Engine (MSE) is a search system that enables MetaSearch. To perform a MetaSearch, user query is sent to multiple search engines; once the search results returned, they are received by the MSE, then merged into a single ranked list and the ranked list is presented to the user. When a query is submitted to a MSE, decisions are made with respect to the underlying search engines to be used, what modifications will be made to the query and how to score the results....
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