Title :
Result integration in a meta Web search engine
Author :
Xu, Baowen ; Zhang, Weifeng ; Yang, Hongji
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Southeast Univ., Nanjing, China
Abstract :
A meta Web search engine first sends a user´s search requests to its referenced search engines. The results returned by these search engines are then integrated by one result-integrating algorithm and returned to the user. Query precision, completeness and response speed are directly affected by the choice of result integration algorithm. By analyzing common result-integrating algorithms, this paper recommends several unproved algorithms to improve the coherence of search results.
Keywords :
Internet; information retrieval; search engines; meta Web search engine; query completeness; query precision; referenced search engines; response speed; result integration algorithm; Algorithm design and analysis; Computer science; Internet; Laboratories; Metasearch; Search engines; Software engineering; Sorting; Web search; World Wide Web;
Conference_Titel :
Cyber Worlds, 2002. Proceedings. First International Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1862-1
DOI :
10.1109/CW.2002.1180874