DocumentCode
1527514
Title
The MetaCrawler architecture for resource aggregation on the Web
Author
Selberg, Erik ; Etzioni, Oren
Author_Institution
Washington Univ., Seattle, WA, USA
Volume
12
Issue
1
fYear
1997
Firstpage
11
Lastpage
14
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;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
IEEE Expert
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0885-9000
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/64.577468
Filename
577468
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