tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post370310907293744657..comments2024-03-24T10:38:16.997-07:00Comments on Geeking with Greg: Universal search, Google, and A9Greg Lindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09216403000599463072noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-51659209776958929992007-05-22T20:35:00.000-07:002007-05-22T20:35:00.000-07:00At XTech last week I demonstrated the federated s...At XTech last week I demonstrated the federated search we've built in the Talis Platform (you can see a video of the talk here: <A HREF="http://cubicgarden.blip.tv/file/234421/" REL="nofollow">http://cubicgarden.blip.tv/file/234421/</A>). It's a bit like opensearch, but instead of sending the search (and the complexity involved in mapping different search syntaxes) we send the URI of the original set of search results (an RSS feed). The receiving service then annotates the results with additional information and returns the entire result set. This can in turn be fed to another service for further annotation.<BR/><BR/>The example I use is a search engine that searches book data. I send the URI of a book search to another search engine that contains book jackets which fetches the book search, then matches ISBNs to get jacket images for the books in the search. I then pass this to a search engine that has knowledge of which libraries hold which books to annotate the search results with location information. Ditto for wikipedia articles about the author, or reviews or ratings etc. It's federated and (because we're using RSS 1.0 RDF) trivially parallelisable with automatic merging of results.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-72688410558472032282007-05-22T17:59:00.000-07:002007-05-22T17:59:00.000-07:00It's great to see dbailey's work! The loss for Ama...It's great to see dbailey's work! The loss for Amazon was real - another neglected and mistreated superstar.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14538100183108510032noreply@blogger.com