Meta-Search Engines

The following list includes a number of sites that query multiple search engines simultaneously, and sites that provide direct access to multiple search engines.
It was last updated 2 November, 2003.

If you think that a particular meta-search engine should be added to this list, please contact crs at swcp dot com

• MetaCrawler
  MetaCrawler is an multithreaded search site that can take your search terms and simultaneously feed them to several sites, including Alta Vista, Excite, Lycos, WebCrawler, and Yahoo, It organizes the results into a uniform format and displays them. MetaCrawler combines and normalizes the confidence scores given to each reference by the services that return it.
  
  
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• Mamma: The Mother of all Search Engines
  Mamma is a smart meta search engine which relies on the external databases of various Web-based sources . Mamma analyses your queries and properly formats th e words for each source. Mamma will then organize the results into a uniform format, and prese nts them by relevance. The process is comparative to the time spent on any single search engin e.
  
• Ixquick Metasearch
  Ixquick.com claims a number of powerful features: - Outstanding search relevancy (find what you're looking for immediately) - Comprehensive results (searches 12 engines simultaneously) - Fast response - Advanced syntax support (beyond the capabilities of any other metasearch engine) - Web, Picture, News and MP3 category searches - One dozen languages are supported.
  

• Dogpile
  Dogpile provides a multi engine semi-parallel search interface that automatically searches more than 20 search engines 3 at a time. Dogpile allows for continued searching options and Boolean operators.

• SuperSearch
  SuperSearch provides a multi-search-engine-interface implemented in JavaScript. With SuperSearch, you can submit a search query to selected multiple search engines classified in the following categories: Crawlers, Indices, Usenet, People, Meta, Articles, Software, and Unsorted. Search result from each of the engines selected are presented in separate windows. SuperSearch requires Netscape 2.0 or Internet Explorer 3.0.

• Search.com from Clnet
  Search.com provides the user with direct access to over 250 search engines. The engines are organized into 14 subject categories, allowing the user to narrow a search by selecting engines in a particular subject category. The best engines as determined by search.com are indicated by a "top pick" icon. Searches are performed per search engine at a time. Search.com also offers a search tool by which you can search the titles of all the search engines provided. Recently, Search.com added an express search facility where you can pick a search tool from the list box of an express search, type in a quick query and fire off the search.

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