Search solutions provider Deep Web Technologies, US, has announced the addition of essential Chinese research to WorldWideScience.org, the WorldWideScience Alliance's global science gateway. WorldWideScience.org is powered by Deep Web Technologies' Explorit Research Accelerator, a federated search engine. Explorit Research Accelerator allows anyone with Internet access to launch a single query across WorldWideScience's 375 million pages of scientific and technical information in databases and portals from six continents.
China is the world's second largest publisher of scientific papers, with output that is new to many of the world's researchers. The addition of the nation's publications to WorldWideScience's deep web content is expected to significantly increase the use of Chinese research by the global community.
Deep Web Technologies' experts worked with their Chinese counterparts to identify a relevant and useful subset of the massive Chinese research database held by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC). The effort involved working across language, technical and culture barriers to create an optimised interface to their content, enabling seamless integration of this content into WorldWideScience.org. As a result, WorldWideScience.org users can search more than 6,000 Chinese journals.
Federated search is projected as the future of search because of its ease and power to find content not indexed by the popular search engines including Google and Yahoo. Similar to metasearch technologies, federated search performs real-time, parallel searches of multiple, deep web information sources, merging the results into one ranked and sorted result list. It enables the rapid and cost-effective integration of multiple, valuable information sources into one web portal without significant expense or effort on the part of content owners.
