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A meta-search engine is a search tool that sends user requests to several other search engines and/or databases and aggregates the results into a single list or displays them according to their source. Metasearch engines enable users to enter search criteria once and access several search engines simultaneously. Metasearch engines operate on the premise that the Web is too large for any one search engine to index it all and that more comprehensive search results can be obtained by combining the results from several search engines. This also may save the user from having to use multiple search engines separately. The term Metasearch is frequently used to classify a set of commercial search engines, see the list of search engines, but is also used to describe the paradigm of searching multiple data sources in real time. The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) uses the terms Federated Search and Metasearch interchangeably to describe this web search paradigm. From Wikipedia under the
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Q. so far i know, yahoo, metasearch, google, ask, dogpile, search.com, msn, aol, what else is there? Asked by hamsteakswimmer - Tue Jan 2 03:34:20 2007 - - 6 Answers - 0 Comments A. General Search engines: Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves) Exalead Gigablast Google Snap Windows Live Search (formerly MSN Search) WiseNut Yahoo! Search Google-based search engines: AOL Search Netscape Yahoo!-based search engines: AltaVista AlltheWeb GoodSearch Windows-Live-based search engines: A9.com Alexa Internet Lycos Metasearch engines: Brainboost Dogpile Excite HotBot Info.com ixquick Mamma Metacrawler WebCrawler Regional search engines: Accoona, China/US Ansearch, Australia/US/UK/NZ Baidu, China Daum, Korea In.gr, Greece Naver, Korea Rambler, Russia Yandex, Russia Rediff, India SAPO, Portugal Answered by Willker - Tue Jan 2 04:10:12 2007 From Yahoo Answer Search: "Metasearch engine" |
