Search Strategies in Federated Search: Refine Search

Filtering results is as much an art as a science. Refining or clarifying an initial set of search results is a fairly common practice among search engine users that don’t know exactly what they are looking for. Yet in federated searching, refining a group of results is often not the best strategy for a user to find [...]

Posted Under: Federated Search,The Deep Web
This post was written by Brian Despain on December 20, 2010 Comments (1)

Deep Web Search – How to optimize queries?

When conducting a Deep Web search, one of the common problems is understanding and optimizing queries.  Most deep web search engines are federated which means the query is passed simultaneously to multiple engines. If the federated search provider has done their job, then the query should seamlessly match to the logic of the native interface. [...]

Posted Under: The Deep Web
This post was written by Brian Despain on February 3, 2009 Comments (0)