Server characterisation and selection for personal metasearch

ABSTRACT

A single search interface to all a person's digital resources, such as email archives, corporate databases, websites, and subscription services, is appealing but a central index of all private, corporate, subscription and web data is impractical. A metasearch approach can instead integrate any number of existing search services over a variety of data.

INDEX TERMS

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

Additional Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.4 Distributed Systems
          Subjects: Client/server; Distributed applications

  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.4 Systems and Software
          Subjects: Distributed systems

General Terms:
Algorithms, Design, Management, Theory