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Online information retrieval tool
A metasearch engine is an online information retrieval tool that uses the data of one or more web search engines to produce its own results. Metasearch engines take input from a user and immediately query search engines for results. Sufficient data is gathered, ranked, and presented to the users. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Metasearch engineA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Measuring performance of metasearch engines to access information: an exploratory study based on precision metricsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The cybersleuth's guide to the InternetThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Building efficient and effective metasearch enginesCited 207 times
- Go sideways: SpamdexingA closely related topic
- Go sideways: DogpileA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A system that displays aggregated results from several search engines, invoked simultaneously
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Building efficient and effective metasearch engines
Experiences with selecting search engines using metasearch
Web searcher interaction with the Dogpile.com metasearch engine
Design and implementation of Metta, a metasearch engine for biomedical literature retrieval intended for systematic reviewers
A neural network-based intelligent metasearch engine
Web metasearch engines
Assessing metasearch engine performance
The potential of the metasearch engine
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
The cybersleuth's guide to the InternetCarole A. Levitt · 2006
Advanced Metasearch Engine TechnologyWeiyi Meng, Clement Yu · 2010
The extreme searcher's guide to Web search enginesRandolph Hock · 1998
Federated SearchChristopher N. Cox · 2006
Estimating the query difficulty for information retrievalDavid Carmel · 2010- 📕An intelligent metasearch engine for the world wide webAndrew Agno · 2000
- 📕Meta-search engine for the webPaul John Temlett · 2000
- 📕Using extra-topical user preferences to improve web-based metasearchEric J. Glover · 2001
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