Article,
Multi Similarity Measure based Result Merging Strategies in Meta Search Engine
ACEEE International Journal of Information Technology, 3 (2): 8 (June 2013)
Abstract
In Meta Search Engine result merging is the key
component. Meta Search Engines provide a uniform query
interface for Internet users to search for information.
Depending on users’ needs, they select relevant sources and
map user queries into the target search engines, subsequently
merging the results. The effectiveness of a Meta Search
Engine is closely related to the result merging algorithm it
employs. In this paper, we have proposed a Meta Search
Engine, which has two distinct steps (1) searching through
surface and deep search engine, and (2) Ranking the results
through the designed ranking algorithm. Initially, the query
given by the user is inputted to the deep and surface search
engine. The proposed method used two distinct algorithms
for ranking the search results, concept similarity based
method and cosine similarity based method. Once the results
from various search engines are ranked, the proposed Meta
Search Engine merges them into a single ranked list. Finally,
the experimentation will be done to prove the efficiency of
the proposed visible and invisible web-based Meta Search
Engine in merging the relevant pages. TSAP is used as the
evaluation criteria and the algorithms are evaluated based on
these criteria.
