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Oct
2008
by Walt Warnick in Technology
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federated-search
by Walt Warnick and Sol Lederman
While federated search is a core technology that OSTI employs to tackle challenges of sharing 
knowledge, the technology isn't perfect. OSTI aggressively uses federated search because it does what no other search technology can do—inexpensively making dozens of non-Googleable databases searchable via a single query. Two nagging limitations of federated search are that it can take 30 seconds to execute a search—which seems slow in the digital age—and hit lists are not exhaustive.
