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Standard Meta
Searchers: Old School
These are some "oldies but
goodies." The following list includes some notable examples of
standard meta search engines, many of these having been around for years
and have remained quite popular with the searching public.
Dogpile - Excite -
Hunt It Out -
IxQuick -
Mamma -
MetaCrawler -
MetaSearch -
MetaEureka -
Search.com -
WebCrawler -
WindSeek -
Vivisimo -
ZapMeta
Meta
Searchers: New School
Below you will find some
excellent examples of newer meta search engines. Many include nifty
features for advanced searching, such as clustering. Clustering search
engines gather results into groups around a certain theme, or in some
cases just provide you with related keywords that perhaps will aid the
user to zero in on your goal. Others offer the user the ability to set
the bias of each search engine the meta searcher pulls results from. For
example, telling it to weigh results more from Yahoo than from Ask
Jeeves.
Clusty - ez2find -
Ithaki -
Izito -
Kartoo -
KillerInfo -
Mooter -
Turbo10 -
Nuah -
Ujiko - WebClust
All-In-One
Search Pages
Below you will find some
excellent examples of what I call all-in-one search pages. These are not
technically meta search engines as they only allow the user to search
one engine at a time, but they certainly provide a valuable service to
the web searcher.
AllSearches -
iTools -
Multi-Search-Engine -
Port Prophecy -
Queryster's SearchX -
Search22 -
Searchalot
Conclusion: There are
several advantages to using meta search engines, the most obvious
advantage being the ability to get results from multiple search engines
without having to visit each in turn. Meta searchers in general are fast
ways of getting information on things broad in scope. And finally they
are important in allowing the user to see how the various search engines
return results on the same query.
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