Scholars portal: beyond simple metasearch

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 ...

Metasearch engines provide a plethora of information to the user through World Wide Web. They are the prominent sources of query-based search and centralized human---world interactions. Metasearch engine shows a list of Web sites to a particular query ...

Frequently a user's information needs are stored in the databases of multiple search engines. It is inconvenient and inefficient for an ordinary user to invoke multiple search engines and identify useful documents from the returned results. To support ...