Combining Information from Multiple Internet Sources

Auction Consensus Game theory
Auction - 30% 30%
Consensus 10% - 40%
Game theory 0% 0% -
Table 4.3.8 Coverage of methods for very complex query
Table above illustrates coverage of result sets returned by the three methods. It can be
observed that highest set-coverage (40%) is between result sets returned by Consensus and Game
theory methods. In other cases the set-coverage is equal to 30%. URL to URL coverage is very low
and it is non-zero (10%) only in case of Auction and Consensus method.
As in the previous cases here, to compare the results content from 3 top most URLs from
each result set are investigated. Auction method as the 2 top most URLs returned suggestions
provided by Google search engine, to search for the aforementioned query in its Google Scholar
service. This however, does not point to any resource itself. As the third URL Auction method
returned the Stanford Encyclopedia of philosophy webpage containing definition of Game theory.
Game theory as the first URL returned the webpage containing information about institutional and
behavioral economics. The second URL is the Google search engine suggestion, the same as the
first URL returned by the Auction method. Third URL is a document about multi-agent systems and
utilizing those as an approach to distributed artificial intelligence. Consensus as the two top most
URL method returns those which were returned as 3 rd ones by the Game theory and Auction
method. As the third URL it presented the article from Encyclopaedia Britannica about the Game
theory in general.
That said it seems that the search engines, when providing the URLs for this long and
complex query, most of the time taken into account the term Game theory, rather than
consensus, conflict or auction terms. Probably out of these topics, the Game theory is
the most popular topic which could be found in Internet. This may not be the results which one
could be expecting when issuing this query, but since this query is very complex, the search engines
may have gotten confused. But this is a work of the algorithms presented here, to remove the
confusion from the result sets, thus providing the best possible results. Nevertheless, here is the
subjective comparison of the results:
1. Consensus – no link which is a suggestion to use some other search engine, the URLs
which were described, all point to the real resource
2. Game theory – one link which is a suggestion to use other search, two URLs pointed to a
real resources
3. Auction – two links were suggestion to use another search, one pointed to a real resource
There is no comparison of methods vs. MySpiders for this query. Query proven to complex
for MySpiders to handle – it is a content based search and probably it did not find any resource
which contained all of the terms from the issued query. In turn MySpiders did not return any URL
for this query.
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