[WEB4LIB] Cross-database search tools

[Avi Rappoport]

At 10:02 AM -0700 8/22/01, Roy Tennant wrote:
>I am trying to survey any cross-database search tools that are 
>presently in production. These are applications that take one search 
>query, send it out to multiple databases and return organized 
>results (not necessarily de-duped) to the user.

I call these metasearch, search brokering and distributed search, 
depending on the protocols used.  Z39.50 really was a pioneer!  It's 
an emerging field and some interesting stuff is happening -- my 
current coverage is at 
<http://www.searchtools.com/info/metasearch.html>

Avi
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