Opportunities from open source search

Author

Buntine, Wray ; Aberer, Karl ; Podnar, Ivana ; Rajman, Martin

Author_Institution

Complex Syst. Comput. Group, Helsinki Inst. of Inf. Technol., Finland

fYear

2005

fDate

19-22 Sept. 2005

Firstpage

2

Lastpage

8

Abstract

Internet search has a strong business model that permits a free service to users, so it is difficult to see why, if at all, there should be open source offerings as well. This paper first discusses open source search, and a rationale for the computer science community at large to get involved. Because there is no shortage of core open source components for at least some of the tasks involved, the Alvis Consortium is building infrastructure for open source search engines using peer-to-peer and subject specific technology as its core, based on this rationale. We view open source search as a rich future playground in which information extraction and retrieval components can be used and intelligent agents can operate.

Keywords

Internet; peer-to-peer computing; search engines; software agents; Alvis Consortium; Internet search; business model; information extraction; information retrieval; intelligent agents; open source search engines; peer-to-peer technology; Advertising; Business communication; Companies; Computer science; Data mining; Information technology; Intelligent agent; Peer to peer computing; Search engines; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Agent Technology, IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2416-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IAT.2005.113

Filename

1565502