Frequently a user's information needs are stored in the databases of multiple search
engines. It is inconvenient and inefficient for an ordinary user to invoke multiple search …

Search engines are among the most successful applications on the web today. So many
search engines have been created that it is difficult for users to know where they are, how to …

When a query is submitted to a metasearch engine, decisions are made with respect to the
underlying search engines to be used, what modifications will be made to the query, and …

The explosive growth of the World Wide Web, and the resulting information overload, has
led to a mini-explosion in World Wide Web search engines. This mini-explosion, in turn, led …

Given the ranked lists of documents returned by multiple search engines in response to a
given query, the problem of metasearch is to combine these lists in a way which optimizes …

World Wide Web (WWW) search engines (eg AltaVista, Infoseek, HotBot, etc.) have a
number of deficiencies including: periods of downtime, low coverage of the WWW …

Search engines are among the most useful and high-profile resources on the Internet. The
problem of finding information on the Internet has been replaced with the problem of …

NECI Research Institute has developed a metasearch engine that improves the efficiency of
Web searches by downloading and analyzing each document and then displaying results …

Given the ranked lists of documents returned by multiple search engines in response to a
given query, the problem of metasearch is to combine these lists in a way which optimizes …

Metasearch engines are an intuitive method for improving the performance of Web search
by increasing coverage, returning large numbers of results with a focus on relevance, and …