This post re-published with permission from AltSearchEngines.com. Here is Part I and Part II Federated Search: Beyond the Basics We have only scratched the surface of the technology. I recommend playing with federated search applications and reading some of my other articles: Some federated search applications include: * Mednar – Searches medical information sources. * [...]
This post re-published with permission from AltSearchEngines.com. Here is Part I A Definition of Federated Search While not everyone agrees on all details of what federated search is, here’s a fairly well-accepted definition: Federated search is the process of performing a simultaneous real-time search of multiple diverse and distributed sources from a single search page, [...]
This post is republished with permission from AltSearchEngines.com. Federated search facilitates research by helping users find high-quality documents in more specialized or remote corners of the Internet. Federated search applications excel at finding scientific, technical, and legal documents whether they live in free public sites or in subscription sites. This makes federated search a vital [...]
One of the interesting features of our own Explorit federated search is the alerting feature. This feature can bring value to any database searched in a federated fashion. For this particular example I am using Mednar, (recently named #6 in the top ten alternative search engines for 2008). It’s fairly common for researchers to monitor [...]
