queries from users and redirects them to one or more of the participant search engines for
processing. A meta-search engine incorporating many participant search engines is better
than a single global search engine in terms of the number of pages indexed and the
freshness of the indexes. The meta-search engine stores descriptive data (ie, descriptors)
about the index maintained by each participant search engine so that it can estimate the …
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A meta-search engine acts as an agent for the participant search engines. It receives
queries from users and redirects them to one or more of the participant search engines for
processing. A meta-search engine incorporating many participant search engines is better
than a single global search engine in terms of the number of pages indexed and the
freshness of the indexes. The meta-search engine stores descriptive data (ie, descriptors)
about the index maintained by each participant search engine so that it can estimate the …