Frequently a user's information needs are stored in the databases of multiple search
engines. It is inconvenient and inefficient for an ordinary user to invoke multiple search …

Result merging is a key component in a metasearch engine. Once the results from various
search engines are collected, the metasearch system merges them into a single ranked list …

Given a large number of search engines on the Internet, it is difficult for a person to
determine which search engines could serve his/her information needs. A common solution …

This paper presents a methodology for finding the n most similar documents across multiple
text databases for any given query and for any positive integer n. This methodology consists …

Linkages among documents have a significant impact on the importance of documents, as it
can be argued that important documents are pointed to by many documents or by other …

In this paper, we present a statistical method to estimate the usefulness of a search engine
for any given query. The estimates can be used by a metasearch engine to choose local …

Purpose The development and evaluation of an algorithm for detecting potential medication
errors due to look-alike/sound-alike (LASA) drug names are described. Summary A …

AllInOneNews is the largest news metasearch engine in the world, connecting to over 1,000
news sites over 150 countries. Implementing a large-scale metasearch engine like …

Metasearch engines can be used to facilitate ordinary users for retrieving information from
multiple local sources (text databases). In a metasearch engine, the contents of each local …

Background To assess the specificity of an algorithm designed to detect look-alike/sound-
alike (LASA) medication prescribing errors in electronic health record (EHR) data. Setting …