Receive the weekly sampler of posts and "Resource of the Week".
Subscribe »

Enter your
email address:

My Account »


Bookmark and Share

Testimonial?
If you find ResourceShelf useful, please supply a testimonial »








Home > ResourceBlog > Article

« All ResourceBlog Articles

 

Bookmark and Share   Feed

Thursday, 5th July 2007

Search engine mashup or What Some Call Federated or Meta Searching

From the news release:

A mashup of two different types of web search tools could make find the useful nuggets of information among all the grit on the Internet much easier.

We have all experienced the inconvenience of trying to search for something on the World Wide Web and the search engine spewing back thousands of results, none of which look very relevant. The addition of new addresses, such as Europe's ".EU" domain mean that the number of web pages available will continue to grow and the problem of taming all that information will only get worse.

To help solve the problem, information scientists Liu Wei and Chen Junjie of the Taiyuan University of Technology, in Shanxi, China, have brought together to distinct types of computer software to help them build a new search engine that can intelligently crawl other search engines. They describe their new search robot in Inderscience's International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering.

"Traditional search engines cannot cope easily with this rapid expansion of information resources, explains Junjie.

With the recent launches of
+ Ask 3D with Morph Technology*

+ Google Universe

+ Yahoo OneSearch (Mobile)

we see this concept coming into practice. Actually, libraries have been deeply involved in federated search (one search, material from several disparate sources, duplicates combined, one results list) for a long time. Players in this space include:

+ MuseGlobal
+ Webfeat
and Fretwell Downing/OCLC Pica's ZPORTAL are a few examples.

* Note: Gary is Director of Online Resources at Ask.com

Source: EurekaAlert
Thanks to Pete Weiss for the news tip.

See Also: Let’s Talk Metasearch, Federated Search, or Universal Search
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2007/05/16/lets-talk-federated-or-metasearch/

See Also: Some Might Also Say that Dialog's DIALINDEX/OneSearch (Search Multiple Dialog Files Simultaneously) is a variation on this concept and has been available for many years.


Category:

Views: 577




blog comments powered by Disqus

« All ResourceBlog Articles

 

Read about the FreePint FamilyFreePint Family

A family of resources to help information workers be more effective, raise the value of information in their organisations and contribute to success. Read more »


FeedLatest Family Articles:


Click to view the article Quilting big data threads
Thursday, 24th May 2012

Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.


Click to view the article The fallacy of information overload
Wednesday, 23rd May 2012

A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?


Click to view the article Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure?
Wednesday, 23rd May 2012

Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.


Click to view the article Newsdesk: tracking millions of pieces of information a day
Tuesday, 22nd May 2012

What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?


Click to view the article Alacra Compliance adds managerial oversight
Tuesday, 22nd May 2012

Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).


All Family Articles »
Family Articles by Category »


Tell us what you're working on,
and we'll talk to you about how FreePint can help »


FreePint Family Testimonials

"Fabulous resource to learn of unique tools and insights. Very useful." Manager, Futures and Forecasting, Virginia, USA

More testimonials »






Subscribe

Subscribe to the ResourceShelf Newsletter and receive the weekly sampler of posts and Resource of the Week.

Find out more »

ResourceShelf sponsored by:

Article Categories

All Article Categories »

Archive

All Archives »