Peer, Meta and Distributed Search

Infonortics Search Engines Meeting, 2002
Avi Rappoport SearchTools.com

Contents of Presentation

• Problems with Centralized Index Search Engines

• Three Solutions For Search Distribution

• Solution #1: P2P Search

• P2P Search: Napster Model

• Gnutella / Freenet / Pure P2P model

• OpenCOLA - P2P Agents

• Groove - P2P Collaboration

• JXTA - Sun's P2P Protocols

• Solution #2: Meta Search

• Disadvantages of Meta Search

• Web Wide Meta Search Engines

• Web Wide Meta Search Engines (continued)

• "Deep Web" or "Invisible Web" Meta Searching

• Meta Searching Scientific Databases

• Verity Federated Meta Search

• Intelliseek Search Distribution

• Other Meta Search and Federated Search Engines

• Solution #3: Distributed Search Standards

• Z39.50: Distributed Search

• Z39.50 Examples

• WAIS Distributed Search

• Inktomi Distributed Search

• XQuery Version 1

• "Best Sources" Problem

• Open Archives Metadata Harvesting Protocol

• New Google APIs

• Ideal Distributed Search Protocol

• Conclusion