Search engine that searches from multiple queries

Discussion in 'All Other Search Engines' started by d3vlabs, Jul 14, 2008.

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    Company I work for will be investing some money into a search engine soon that will parse search results from multiple vendor sites and put them into one table that can be worked with. For example a search for part "1234" will search sites A, B, C, D and etc and output search results from all of the sites in the same table. Kinda like what dogpile.com is, but only for a certain category of products.

    Now here's an idea that I got from my boss :

    Create such a modification client side that would allow multiple input queries. For example i make a list first

    Part #'s

    1234
    2313
    23456
    12343
    etc

    and submit this list to a search engine. The search engine would reply with a list of parts parsed from vendor searches. THe list can be manually inputed or imported from a CSV or TXT

    In programmer/coder speak is there a term for such an engine? Can someone provide some links on this being utilized?
     
    d3vlabs, Jul 14, 2008 IP