Method and apparatus for merging result lists from multiple search engines
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Apr 27, 2004
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Feb 27, 2003
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Aug 27, 2001
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This invention includes the step of transmitting a query to a set of search engines. Any result lists returned from these search engines is received, and a subset of entries in each result list is selected. Each entry in this subset is assigned a scoring value according to a scoring function, and each result list is then assigned a representative value according to the scoring values assigned to its entries. A merged list of entries is produced based upon the representative value assigned to each result list.
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