Large-scale metasearch engine

摘要

A large-scale metasearch engine is provided. The engine has three main components. A discovery component examines web page content to discover and identify search engines. A connection component connects the metasearch engine to each search engine that has been identified. A search result extraction component extracts useful information from each result page returned from said search engines for any particular query. A method for a query of internet pages by use of the novel metasearch engine is also provided.