STARTS
Different text search engines are largely incompatible
Metasearcher
Informal Standard for Search Engine Interoperability
Challenges
STARTS is the Stanford Protocol Proposal for Internet Retrieval and Search
Metadata about Query Capabilities
Content Summaries
Queries Have a Filter and a Ranking Component
Query Results Include Information For Result Merging
STARTS Status
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