META-SEARCH ENGINES

META-SEARCH ENGINE TIPS

Some meta-engines let you choose which search engines to search
Some meta-engines eliminate duplicate results; some don't
Some meta-engines only give you the top ten results from each search engine
Some meta-engines can't process advanced search queries such as boolean operators and truncation

Dogpile: searches Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, About, LookSmart, Overture, and FindWhat; you can view results by relevance or search engine (InfoSpace)
Excite: many portal features; you can view results by relevance or by search engine (InfoSpace)
Ez2Find.com: searches AlltheWeb, Teoma, Google, Yahoo!, AltaVista, Wisenut, ODP, and MSN; clusters results into categories
Fazzle: features advanced search capabilities
IxQuick: searches 12 different engines; allows you to choose which ones to search; ranks results based on the number of "top 10" rankings a site receives from the various search engines
Kartoo: displays your results in a visual map with connected links
Mamma: searches a variety of engines, directories, and invisible web sites; one of the oldest meta search engines
MetaCrawler: searches Google, Yahoo!, AskJeeves, About, LookSmart, Overture, and FindWhat; one of the oldest meta search services; also has MetSpy (InfoSpace)
Search.com (SavvySearch): searches Google, Ask Jeeves, Business.com, Kanoodle, LookSmart, MSN, and Open Directory; (CNET)
SurfWax: shows where your search terms appear in the webpages you retrieve
Vivisimo: organizes your results into categories
WebCrawler: searches Google, Yahoo!, Ask Jeeves, About, and Overture; ad-free; (InfoSpace)

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