MySearchView: a customized metasearch engine generator

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we describe MySearchView, a system for assembling search engines into metasearch engines. With this system, any user can create a metasearch engine by simply letting the system know the URLs of the search engines the user wants to be included and the metasearch engine will be built fully automatically. In this paper, the main steps of building metasearch engines will be sketched. We will also outline our plan to demonstrate all the features of MySearchView.

REFERENCES

• 1: Weiyi Meng , Clement Yu , King-Lup Liu, Building efficient and effective metasearch engines, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), v.34 n.1, p.48-89, March 2002 [doi>10.1145/505282.505284]
• 2: Z. Wu, V. Raghavan, et al. SE-LEGO: Creating Metasearch Engine on Demand. ACM SIGIR, Demo, 2003.
• 3: Zonghuan Wu , Vijay Raghavan , Hua Qian , Vuyyuru Rama , Weiyi Meng , Hai He , Clement Yu, Towards Automatic Incorporation of Search Engines into a Large-Scale Metasearch Engine, Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence, p.658, October 13-17, 2003
• 4: Jared Cope , Nick Craswell , David Hawking, Automated discovery of search interfaces on the web, Proceedings of the 14th Australasian database conference, p.181-189, February 01, 2003, Adelaide, Australia
• 5: Hongkun Zhao , Weiyi Meng , Zonghuan Wu , Vijay Raghavan , Clement Yu, Fully automatic wrapper generation for search engines, Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web, May 10-14, 2005, Chiba, Japan [doi>10.1145/1060745.1060760]
• 6: Y. Lu, W. Meng, L. Shu, C. Yu, and K. Liu. Evaluation of Result Merging Strategies for Metasearch Engines. WISE Conference, 2005.
• 7: T. Tsikrika, M. Lalmas. Merging techniques for performing data fusion on the web. CIKM, 2001.
• 8: Y. Rasolofo, D. Hawking, J. Savoy. Result merging strategies for a current news metasearcher. Information Processing and Management, 2003.
• 9: D. Buttler, L. Liu, C. Pu. A Fully Automated Object Extraction System for the World Wide Web. ICDCS, 2001.
• 10: B. Liu, R. Grossman and Y. Zhai. Mining Data Records in Web Pages. SIGKDD, 2003.
• 11: K. Simon, G. Lausen. ViPER: Augmenting Automatic Information Extraction with Visual Perceptions. CIKM, 2005.
• 12: J. H. Lee. Analyses of Multiple Evidence Combination. ACM SIGIR, 1997.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval
          Subjects: Retrieval models

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval
          Subjects: Search process

General Terms:
Design, Management, Measurement, Performance

Keywords:
customization, metasearch engine, result merging, wrapper generation