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    Meta Search: Edited By: Priyabrata Nayak, Lecturer, Dept. of CSE

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    A meta search engine allows unified searching of multiple search engines. It does not maintain its own index but queries other search engines and combines their results. It is best for quick searches using a few keywords but individual search engines work better for complex queries. A metasearch engine selects relevant search engines to query and merges their results into a single ranked list.

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    METASEARCH

    NM Institute of Engineering &Technology

    META SEARCH

    Edited by: Priyabrata Nayak, lecturer, Dept. of CSE


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    METASEARCH

    What is it?
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     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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    METASEARCH

    When to use?
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     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

    METASEARCH ENGINE
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    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.
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    METASEARCH
    Metasearch Software Component Architecture
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    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

    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

    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

    Metasearch Software Component......


    NM Institute of Engineering &Technology

    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

    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

    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.
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    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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    METASEARCH
    EXAMPLES OF
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    META SEARCH ENGINES


    All-in-One Search Page (http://www.allonesearch.com/)
    Dogpile (http://www.dogpile.com/)
    Find.com (http://www.find.com/)
    MetaCrawler (http://www.metacrawler.com/ )
    SavvySearch (http://www.savvysearch.com/)
    WebRing (http://www.webring.org/)

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    METASEARCH

    CONCLUSION
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    • 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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    METASEARCH
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    THANK YOU !!

    Edited by: Priyabrata Nayak, lecturer, Dept. of CSE


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