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Summary: Metasearch Consistency #
Mark Montague
Department of Computer Science
Dartmouth College
6211 Sudikoff Laboratory
Hanover, NH 03755
montague@cs.dartmouth.edu
Javed A. Aslam
Department of Computer Science
Dartmouth College
6211 Sudikoff Laboratory
Hanover, NH 03755
jaa@cs.dartmouth.edu
ABSTRACT
We investigate the performance of metasearch algorithms
in terms of how much they improve consistency. We find
that three di#erent metasearch algorithms, each over three
datasets, usually improve the consistency of search results;
sometimes the improvement is dramatic. Furthermore, con
sistency tends to improve when performance improves.
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