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general info
meX-search is an experimental, non commercial meta search engine built up from april to july 2004 by Karsten Knorr during his diploma thesis in computer and media science [University of Applied Science Berlin]. The main idea of the thesis was the implementation of an intuitive and simple user interface for web clustering search engines...
main features
  • retrieval set clustering
    meX automatically categorizes the search results of the yahoo-API into thematic groups

  • graphical interface
    instead of long textual result lists, the meX maps visualize the clustered results with the interactive meX maps
    ->meX maps show up to 100 result at one glance
    ->meX maps can be organized by the user [Drag 'n Drop, hide irrelevant results]

  • human counterpart
    in the full version meX-search comes with meX, a smart video agent who interacts with the user
retrieval set clustering
Users of conventional Web search engines are often forced to sift through a long list of off-topic documents to find relevant results... Especially when the search query is general, it is often hard to find relevant resources among thousands of irrelevant ones. Search result clustering is a approach to handle such problems by grouping similar documents among search results into thematic groups.

meX is a meta search engine. Currently meX is getting the search results completely from the Yahoo-API.

The clustering of the result-snippets from Yahoo is based on Carrot2, an open source java framework for clustering textual data. Within the Carrot2 framework meX uses the Lingo Algorithm. The Authors of the Carrot2 framework and components: Dawid Weiss, Jerzy Stefanowski, Stanislaw Osinski.

The commercial version of carrot/lingo: http://www.carrot-search.com/
graphical interface

Instead of long textual result lists, meX visualizes the search results with a graphical interface: the meX maps. meX maps are intuitively to understand an easy to handle. meX maps are orientated towards Mind Maps, a proven technique of displaying and summarizing complex information.

meX maps display up to 100 search results on one page so that the user don't have to navigate through many single result documents.

The meX maps speed up the search process by giving the posibility to hide directly all irrelevant information.

Technically the visualization of the clustered search results is based on the wmp-framework. The wmp-framework is an actionscript package that offers a collection of helpful methods, classes and interfaces to visualize clustered information in a flash environment.

human counterpart


In the full version meX-search is presented by meX, a smart video agent who interacts with the user....
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