Cluster-based language models for distributed retrieval
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User preferences when searching individual and integrated full-text databases
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Why batch and user evaluations do not give the same results
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Building efficient and effective metasearch engines
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A language modeling framework for resource selection and results merging
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Result merging strategies for a current news metasearcher
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Proportional search interface usability measures
Proceedings of the third Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction
Accurately interpreting clickthrough data as implicit feedback
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The FedLemur project: Federated search in the real world
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
AllInOneNews: development and evaluation of a large-scale news metasearch engine
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
User adaptation: good results from poor systems
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The PENG system: integrating push and pull for information access
ICADL'07 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Asian digital libraries: looking back 10 years and forging new frontiers
Interest and Evaluation of Aggregated Search
WI-IAT '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 01
A comparative survey of Personalised Information Retrieval and Adaptive Hypermedia techniques
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Distributed information retrieval and applications
ECIR'13 Proceedings of the 35th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
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Metasearch tools, which combine search results from any number of independent search engines, could be useful in a range of tasks and especially for integrating information from separate government agencies. However, it is not immediately clear what user interfaces might be appropriate for presenting results from more than one source. We evaluated four interface designs with real tasks from Centrelink, Australia's social services agency, and with a working metasearch tool. Test users recorded similar overall effectiveness across these interfaces, but did not like the most familiar options, a single ranked list or a link to broaden search scope. Interfaces which supported identifying, understanding, and selecting between sources were strongly preferred.