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Alexandre Panov

John Anthony Taylor

Yishai Galatzer

Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for merging the query results received for a query provided to multiple services. In one aspect, a query is transmitted to a plurality of search services. A plurality of query result sets is received from the search services in response to the query. A comparer function is generated by applying a ranking algorithm to the received query result sets that orders the query results of the query result sets without regard to a received order of the query results in the query result sets. The query result sets are merged into a merged query result set using the comparer function. In an aspect, the query result sets are merged in a manner that maintains an internal order of each received query result set in the merged query result set.

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Alexandre Panov