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On 18 May 2010 15:24, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > There is no synchronous operation in SRU. > > As for federated search . > > To digress a moment, you may recall -- I believe it was on this list -- > there was discussion (maybe a year ago?) of what that even means and whether > it is the same or differs from metasearch, whatever that means. That > discussion was inconclusive. Anyway, earlier drafts of SRU 2.0 describe a > metasearch model. Recently, the committee decided that the terms > "metasearch" and "federated search" are undefined jargon. We now choose to > call it "multi-server search". Way to go. Introducting yet ANOTHER synonym can only help! (And don't forget "broadcast search".)