Title :
Searching and surfing the Web using a semi-adaptive meta-engine
Author :
Castellucci, A. ; Ianni, G. ; Vasile, D. ; Costa, S.
Author_Institution :
DEIS, Calabria Univ., Italy
Abstract :
Global Search is a World Wide Web agent which integrates and enhances many well-known search techniques in order to improve the quality of information gathered from the usual Web search engines. It features intelligent merging of relevant documents from different search engines, anticipated adaptive exploration and evaluation of links from the current result set, and automated derivation of refined queries based on user relevance feedback
Keywords :
adaptive systems; hypermedia; information resources; merging; relevance feedback; search engines; software agents; user modelling; Global Search; Web agent; Web surfing; World Wide Web; anticipated adaptive exploration; automated query derivation; hyperlink evaluation; information quality improvement; intelligent document merging; refined queries; result set; search engines; search techniques; semi-adaptive meta-engine; user relevance feedback; Explosives; Feedback; Indexing; Information retrieval; Internet; Merging; Search engines; Web pages; Web search; Web sites;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology: Coding and Computing, 2001. Proceedings. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1062-0
DOI :
10.1109/ITCC.2001.918832
