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Overview of a metasearch engine A metasearch engine takes data from a search engine and finds a match or a similar data between the data. It then fetches the results and presents them to the user. Metasearch data includes the following: date range, ranking, descriptions, Frequencies, tabindex, global topics, location, css-templates, lr, timestamp, jid, meta tags, prefix, domain, resp.site, About (added by you), limited tables, reciprocal links How does metasearch work? Ø To start with, metasearch starts with a database of meeting information, which is summarized in a XML file. Then, a matching engine is developed on the basis of the XML information. During the search, the engine will look for the occurrence of a particular prefix. It will then populate the result set with one of the found strings. Ø Metasearch Architecture:Data are stored in three main tables: Local Information Files These are stored in alphabetical order below the category/tag of the source. It contains the date, the..