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Article: SavvySearch: a metasearch engine that learns which search engines to query.
- Article from:
- AI Magazine
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1997 American Association for Artificial Intelligence. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Companies, institutions, and individuals must have a presence on the web; each are vying for the attention of millions of people. Not too surprisingly then, the most successful applications on the web to date are search engines: tools that assist users in finding information on specific topics.
A variety of search engines are available, from general, robot based (for example, ALTAVISTA [www.altavista.digital.com] and WEBCRAWLER [webcrawler.com]) to topic or area specific (for example, FTPSEARCH [ftpsearch.unit.no/ftpsearch] and DEJANEWS [WWW.dejanews.com]). Each uses different algorithms for collecting, indexing, and searching links; thus, each returns different ...