Guided Google: A Meta Search Engine and its Implementation using the Google Distributed Web Services

Abstract

With the advent of the Internet, search engines have begun sprouting like mushrooms after a rainfall. Only in recent years, have developers become more innovative, and came up with guided searching facilities online. The goals of these applications are to help ease and guide the searching efforts of a novice web user toward their desired objectives. A number of implementations of such services are emerging. This paper proposes a guided meta-search engine, called "Guided Google", as it serves as an interface to the actual Google.com search engine, using the Google Web Services.