Federated Search Engine Program: Bringing Relevant Information to your desktop

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Federated Search Engine Program: Bringing Relevant Information to your Desktop

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The current era that we live in, in other words known as the Information age, has the distinguished of being able to provide access and transfer of information freely and in addition, to have instantaneous access to information that would have been hard to find or impossible to find previously. Though the exact date remains unknown, somewhere in the latter half of the 20th century, the world moved from an Industrial Revolution to the Digital Revolution. The economy in this revolution is primarily based on the manipulation of information which makes access to information extremely critical at all times. The traditional search methodologies have their shortcomings, which necessitates the usage of customized versions such as a Federated Search Engine. Students, these days require information in a much deeper manner than they did earlier, due to an increase in competition and the need to stay ahead of it. In order to foster a better learning environment and to harness the benefits of the digital