See the Hub-based Architecture.

Muse technology employs a hub-based design and unique modular architecture, providing outstanding performance, maximum scalability and ease of integration. The interchangeability of the Muse Source Packages together with Muse's exclusive Source Factory produce a fully sustainable architecture that works effectively through turbulent change.

Many non-Muse metasearch products require unwieldy and time-consuming development of point-to-point connections between every information source to be searched and every protocol used. Some require an individual module for each information source with complete control operations and other common functions. Muse factors out these components into its core hub and leaves only those functions uniquely adapted to the individual information source in the Source Package. This reduces complexity and improves performance, creates a more robust system, enables faster changes and provides the basis for our unique updating mechanism. The interchangeability of the Muse Source Packages and Muse's exclusive Source Factory together produce a fully sustainable architecture.

The result is a dramatic reduction in the total number of interfaces required in the metasearch environment, coupled with the power to easily add, switch or update the connection to any information source. This breakthrough design has revolutionized metasearching by erasing the boundaries of creating and maintaining individual connections to each source for each organization. All of which gives you the scalability and flexibility you need to maximize performance and adjust quickly to changing requirements.