On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Bernd Fehling < bernd.fehl...@uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> Years ago when "Federated Search" was a buzzword we did some development > and > testing with Lucene, FAST Search, Google and several other Search Engines > according Federated Search in Library context. > The results can be found here > http://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/download/2516631/2516644 > Some minor parts are in German most is written in English. > It also gives you an idea where to keep an eye on, where are the pitfalls > and so on. > We also had a tool called "unity" (written in Python) which did Federated > Search on any Search Engine and > Database, like Google, Gigablast, FAST, Lucene, ... > The trick with Federated Search is to combine the results. > We offered three options to the users search surface: > - RoundRobin > - Relevancy > - PseudoRandom > Thanks much - Andrzej B. suggested I read "Comparing top-k lists" in addition to his Berlin Buzzwords presentation. I will know soon whether we are intent on this direction, right now I'm still trying to think on how hard it will be.
