META-SEARCH ENGINES
- 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)
