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I remember having to use all those meta search engines that combined the results of several engines together to average out all the trash of each result set, and then Google appeared and was better than that.


Dogpile!

Makes you wonder about stuff like Kayak today in the travel space. Is there some better way out there waiting to be found?


sadly enough the answer here is also google. flights.google.com hotels.google.com


Wrt meta search engines, I can only recollect Vivisimo, though there were quite a number of them at that time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivisimo


and yet ensemble methods seem to win an overwhelming proportion of the kaggle competitions and the netflix prize.




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