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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2006
Barry Smyth, County Wicklow, IE;
Evelyn Balfe, County Dublin, IE;
Barry Smyth, County Wicklow, IE;
Evelyn Balfe, County Dublin, IE;
Abstract
A meta search engine receives a query from a user, and submits adapted queries to n search engines. The results are adapted and combined to provide a result set R'. In parallel, the meta search engine accesses a selected hit matrix populated with values for correspondence of queries q-qwith web pages p-p. These values are the number of 'hits' for pervious searches. The pages retrieved from a row for qare combined with the search engine results to provide a final result but which is ranked according to previous search experience. The hit matrix may be dynamically selected according to a user community. The query need not exactly match a hit matrix query as rows can be selected according to similarity to the current query qwith weightings applied.
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