id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 3346 LeVan, Ralph OpenSearch and SRU: A Continuum of Searching 2006-09-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 2439 175 69 An alternative to exposing library content to harvesting search engines as HTML pages is to provide a local functionality it must provide in its local search engine so functionality it must provide in its local search engine so that the metasearch engine can, in turn, provide acceptable functionality to its users. engines will be able to access the library's content. 3. How to send the query to the local search engine OpenSearch was initially developed for the A9 metasearch engine. developers, content providers, and users.5 MXG uses SRU will make it easier for some local search-engine providers The four protocols expose a site's searching functionality and return responses in a standard format. local search engine is provided by a means outside the that all the SRU local search engines have to support the Again, the effort moves from the content provider to the metasearch engine. them with the records from another local search engine. ./cache/3346.pdf ./txt/3346.txt