2. Introduction
Federate search is the necessity of today's
users which provide interface to diverse
information resources the users enters his or
her search query in the search box of the
information portal the system uses the
federate search technology to send the
search strings to each resources that is
incorporated in to the portal.
3. What is Federate search
Federate search is an information retrieved
technology that allows the simultaneously
search of multiple searchable resources. A
user make a single query request which is
distributed to the search engines, databases
other query engines participation in the
federation.
4. Definitions
Peter Jesco defines Federate search as “Transforming a
query and broadcasting it to a group of disparate with the
appropriate syntax merging the results collected from the
databases.
1. Parallel search.
2. Broadcast search.
3. One search.
4. cross searching.
5. cross database searching.
6. distributed searching.
7. Single search.
5. Differentiating Federate search
from other search engines
Federate search engines different from web
search engines such as Google in a number
of ways.
1. Access to content.
2. Speed of searching.
3. Relevancy of content.
4. Merging and ranking contents.
6. Advantages of Federate search
There are certain advantages of using federate searches same
of them as following:
1. The reduce time it takes to do a basic search is benefit
enough.
2. Unified access to diverse content sources.
3. Simultaneously searching across all sources.
4. Ability to simple search as well as advanced search.
5. Integrated results which are easy to view and use.
6. Direct sinks to the native sources for further searching.
7. Ability to filter, sort, print, export and email search
results.
7. Conclusion
By allowing users to search multiple databases
simultaneously federate search may save some steps in
getting results from various resources and truly serve
as one stop shopping for all type of databases as
people hoped in certain sense, the federate search
shifts the process of selecting a database from before
performing searches to after performing searches
