Over 20 Explorer applications deployed. Distributed Explorer Overview Distributed Explorer is Explorer enhanced to support access to heterogeneous document collections on the web. Supports behind the scenes login to server and manages Magic Cookies. Uses configuration files for defining how to interact with document collections. Easy to add new collections to application.
Search engines differ in returning number of documents that match, next results, etc.
Its difficult to rank results across heterogeneous searches. What's Next Generalize query language. Multi-thread the retrieval engine. Highlight search terms. Filter documents retrieved.