Title :
The MetaCrawler architecture for resource aggregation on the Web
Author :
Selberg, Erik ; Etzioni, Oren
Author_Institution :
Washington Univ., Seattle, WA, USA
Abstract :
The paper discusses the MetaCrawler Softbot parallel Web search service that has been available at the University of Washington since June 1995. It provides users with a single interface for querying popular general-purpose Web search services, such as Lycos and AltaVista, and has some sophisticated features that allow it to obtain results of much higher quality than simply regurgitating the output from each search service
Keywords :
Internet; educational computing; information retrieval; online front-ends; user interfaces; AltaVista; Lycos; MetaCrawler Softbot; University of Washington; World Wide Web; general-purpose Web search services; parallel Web search service; quality; querying; resource aggregation; user interface; Content based retrieval; Humans; Ice; Information retrieval; Robots; Search engines; Service oriented architecture; Uniform resource locators; Web pages; Web search;
Journal_Title :
IEEE Expert
