Meta Search Engine

ABSTRACT: The result integration algorithm is the core of Meta search engine. This paper focuses on evaluating the integration algorithms of meta-search engine, and compares meta-search engine to the general search engine by experiments. An experiment method to determine the priority of participant of meta-search engine is also proposed. The experiment result proved that the meta-search engine could get higher quality searching result on average. INTRODUCTION: There are a huge number of documents on the World Wide Web. This makes it very difficult to locate information that is relevant to a user's interest. There are several approaches to help user find information from the Web. One is the metasearch method which builds on top of other search engines. Queries are submitted to the meta-search engine which sends the query to multiple single search engines in turn. When retrieved items are returned by the underlying search engines, the meta-search engine further processes these items and presents relevant items to the user based on a result integration algorithm. The query precision, the query completeness and the response speed are directly affected by the result merge algorithm which is selected. In terms of the working principle of metasearch engine, the result integration is a very important task. J. P. Callan etc. proposed four typical synthesis algorithms to process different situations. Kirsch provided

another typical method, which required the participant search engine to return some additional information, such as the frequency of each query term in the document and the frequency in the database. The meta-search engine would use this information to recalculate the relevance of documents on the client side. Metacrawler imported the concept credibility to determine the relevance between documents and queries. Profusions algorithm was one of the normalized score method. Inquires adopted a merge strategy, which also recalculated the relevance on the client side.

This paper evaluated four main merge algorithms simple merge algorithm, abstract merge algorithm, position merge algorithm, and abstract/ position merge algorithm, then compare them in experiments. EXISTING SYSTEM: In the existing system the meta search method deals with process of searching datas in the World Wide Web but it faces problems for quick and correct access to the data. So it uses some newly proposed algorithm to overcome this method. PROPOSED SYSTEM: The Proposed system overcomes the problem faced in the existing system. The Proposed system uses the newly proposed paper evaluated four main merge algorithms simple merge algorithm, abstract merge algorithm, position merge algorithm, and abstract/ position merge algorithm, then compare them in experiments.

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Pentium III 1.5 GHZ

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