"Best Sources" Problem

• Hundreds or thousands of sources

• Can't query them all, performance problems

• Try to get users to choose domains

Ray Larson & Fred Gey, UC Berkeley

• Perform scanning of databases to list contents

• Choose based on the best matches

Intelliseek

• Analyze query for context

• Find best sources for query type

• Choose best-performing sources based on responsiveness & quality

Jon Kleinberg - social networks

• Finding experts

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