Conclusion

• Centralized search is often inefficient, but fast and consistent

• P2P tends to be ephemeral and small-scale

• Meta search and federated search for the foreseeable future

  • Current information

  • Native security

  • Distribute work

  • Must track source changes

  • Results & relevance issues

   

Previous | Last | Contents

Peer, Meta and Distributed Search
Infonortics Search Engines Meeting, 2002
Avi Rappoport SearchTools.com