User perceptions of a federated search system

Federated search refers to the brokered retrieval of content from a set of auxiliary retrieval systems instead of from a single, centralized retrieval system. Federated search tasks occur in, for example, digital libraries (where documents from several ...

Nowadays, mashup services and especially metasearch engines play an increasingly important role on the Web. Most of users use them directly or indirectly to access and aggregate information from more than one data sources. Similarly to the rest of the ...

Conventional search engines, such as Bing, Baidu, and Google, offer a convenient way for users to seek information on the web. However, with all the benefits they provide, one major limitation is that a sizable portion of the information sources ...