Meta Search Engine with an Intelligent Interface

Meta Search Engine with an Intelligent Interface for Information Retrieval on Multiple Domains

This paper analyses the features of Web Search Engines, Vertical Search Engines, Meta Search Engines, and proposes a Meta Search Engine for searching and retrieving documents on Multiple Domains in the World Wide Web (WWW). A web search engine searches for information in WWW. A Vertical Search provides the user with results for queries on that domain. Meta Search Engines send the user’s search queries to various search engines and combine the search results. This paper introduces intelligent user interfaces for selecting domain, category and search engines for the proposed Multi-Domain Meta Search Engine. An intelligent User Interface is also designed to get the user query and to send it to appropriate search engines. Few algorithms are designed to combine results from various search engines and also to display the results

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