Open meta-search with OpenSearch: a case study

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2007-12
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O'Riordan, Adrian P.
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Computer Science Department, University College Cork, Ireland
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The goal of this project was to demonstrate the possibilities of open source search engine and aggregation technology in a Web environment by building a meta-search engine which employs free open search engines and open protocols. In contrast many meta-search engines on the Internet use proprietary search systems. The search engines employed in this case study are all based on the OpenSearch protocol. OpenSearch-compliant systems support XML technologies such as RSS and Atom for aggregation and distribution. The meta-search engine itself combines the ranked lists of the chosen search sources based on user-supplied weightings. This is implemented in Lucene, a free open source information retrieval library.
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Metasearch , Search engines , Data aggregation , Web syndication , RSS , Ranking , Search interface , OpenSearch
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O'Riordan AP (2007) Open Meta-search with OpenSearch: A Case Study. Technical Publication [Online]. Available at http://www.cs.ucc.ie/~adrian/Metasearch-OpenSearch-AORiordan.pdf
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http://www.cs.ucc.ie/~adrian/Metasearch-OpenSearch-AORiordan.pdf
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https://hdl.handle.net/10468/982
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© 2007, the Author.