The document discusses metasearch engines. It explains that a metasearch engine allows unified access to multiple search engines without maintaining its own index. It identifies key components of a metasearch engine including database selection, collection fusion using document selection and result merging, and result extraction. Query dispatching passes queries to individual search engines for processing.
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The document discusses metasearch engines. It explains that a metasearch engine allows unified access to multiple search engines without maintaining its own index. It identifies key components of a metasearch engine including database selection, collection fusion using document selection and result merging, and result extraction. Query dispatching passes queries to individual search engines for processing.
The document discusses metasearch engines. It explains that a metasearch engine allows unified access to multiple search engines without maintaining its own index. It identifies key components of a metasearch engine including database selection, collection fusion using document selection and result merging, and result extraction. Query dispatching passes queries to individual search engines for processing.
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METASEARCH
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META SEARCH
Presented By Chilika Pujari
Under the guidance of
Mr. Indraneel Mukhopadhyay
1 METASEARCH
What is it? National institute of science &Technology
A meta search engine is a system that supports
unified access to multiple local search engines It does not maintain its own index on web pages . A metasearch engine is an effective tool to quickly reach a large portion of the deep Web
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When to use? National institute of science &Technology
Need to be used cautiously
Good for simple searches, particularly if search terms are distinctive or unique Good for testing with a few keywords – and find which individual search engine returns good results Good for ‘quick and dirty searching’ if you are in a hurry and want to find a few relevant sites quickly For complex searches, involving many search terms, Boolean logic, etc., it is better to use individual search engines
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METASEARCH ENGINE National institute of science &Technology
TECHNOLOGY It includes
techniques that identify what search engines are
likely to contain useful results for a given query .
methods that determine what pages from selected
search engines should be retrieved and how the results from different search engines should be merged are reviewed.
CHILIKA PUJARI 4 METASEARCH Metasearch Software Component Architecture National institute of science &Technology
User 1 8 User Interface 2 Database Selector 7 Result Extractors 3 Collection Fusion Document Selector Result Merger 4 Query Dispatcher 6 6 5 5 Search Search Engine ...... Engine
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Metasearch Software Component......
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Database selector It is responsible for sending each user query to only potentially useful search engines for processing failing on which it may cause wasteful network traffic The database selection process can be classified into the three categories Rough representative approaches Statistical representative approaches Learning-based approaches
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Metasearch Software Component......
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Rough representative approaches: The representative of a
database contains only a few selected key words or paragraphs . It can only provide a very general description about the contents of databases . Statistical representative approaches: Database representatives have detailed statistical information about the document databases. This detailed statistics allow more accurate estimation of database usefulness with respect to any user query . Learning-based approaches: It learns the knowledge regarding which databases are likely to return useful pages to what types of queries from past retrieval experiences.
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Metasearch Software Component......
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Collection fusion This method determines what Web pages should be retrieved from each selected search engine and how the retrieved Web pages from multiple search engines should be merged into a single result list. It includes two modules: document selection module (document selector) result merge module (result merger)
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Metasearch Software Component......
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Document selector: It determines what pages to
retrieve from the document database of the search engine .It retrieves as many potentially useful pages as possible, and as few useless pages as possible . Result merger: It combines the results into a single ranked list .It ranks all returned pages in descending order of their desirability.
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Metasearch Software Component......
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Result extractor: URLs of retrieved pages are
correctly extracted from the HTML file of each result page. Since different search engines use different ways to organize their result, a separate result extractor needs to be created for each local search engine. Query dispatcher: It established a connection with the server of the search engine and passes the query to it. HTTP is used for the connection and data transfer. CHILIKA PUJARI 10 METASEARCH
Advantages & Disadvantages
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Advantages Query can be run across multiple search engines User needs to learn only the search interface of the meta search tool Better results: retrieves top-ranking pages from individual search engines Disadvantages Unique features of individual search engines is lost Not exhaustive: use only top results returned by search engines
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CONCLUSION National institute of science &Technology
• Meta search provide a common interface and
conduct searches in many search engines simultaneously and return results in a uniform format • It do not gather web pages, build indexes, accept URL additions, classify or review web sites
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