MetaSearchers
Search engines have rapidly become very important tools for users of the web. There are now so many of them that users are asking, which is the best? Can I use several at once to compare the results? This page lists the "meta" search services and other collections of search engines.
The following 'metasearchers' submit queries to several search engines in parallel:
- The Mother Load
has three searches:
- The Insane Search (the most thorough metasearch),
- The Web Search (a simplified metasearch), and
- The Mother Load Search (a local directory search).
- MetaCrawler
The MetaCrawler sends your queries to different services:
Lycos,
WebCrawler,
InfoSeek,
Excite,
Alta Vista, and
Yahoo.
The MetaCrawler works by querying a number of existing,
free search engines, organizes the results into a uniform format, and
displays them. With the MetaCrawler, you also have the option of
scoring the hits, so that the sorted list that is displayed
can be sorted by a number of different ways, such as locality, region,
and organization.
- SavvySearch In addition to the English form, there are forms in Français, Deutsch, Italiano , Português , Español, Nederlands, Norsk, Korean, Russian, Suomi, Esperanto, Svenska, Nihongo and Dansk. The form is automatically displayed in the native language of that locale (when possible).
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