Web Search

When a user submits a query, in addition to getting results from the local engine, Sixearch automatically determines which peers are best suited to answer the query based on its previous query-response experience, and forwards the query to those peers.

The query and answers received from each peer are analyzed and used to update local knowledge about what that peer has in its search engine index. This knowledge is then used to select peers for future queries.


Furthermore, with the local search option checked, the user's query will only be matched on the local search engine. In an analogous way, with the Yahoo1 search option checked, the user's query will be sent to the Yahoo search engine as well. But the results coming from Yahoo will be displayed in a separated tabbed panel for the user's reference.

1http://www.yahoo.com