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Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant Internet Happenings, Events and Sources
Friday, April 02, 2004
Do We Want or Need Metasearching? by William J. Frost http://snipurl.com/5ghu
There's no question that Internet users love Google—it's been my favorite since it was operating out of Stanford. Wouldn't users also love a similar system that allows them to search across subscription databases, their OPAC, and perhaps free web sites as well? We don't know. There have been no satisfaction studies published yet on metasearching, a new technology that lets users search across databases from different vendors by using common search standards. Metasearching (a.k.a. federated searching or broadcast searching) is considered by some to be the next evolutionary step of database searching.
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