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Meta Search Engines
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What is a meta search engine
- Unlike search engines, meta search engines don't crawl the web themselves
to build databases. Instead, they allow searches to be sent to several search
engines all at once. The results are then blended together onto one page.
An example: Beaucoup
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Why meta search engines
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Size of Web, Search Engine Coverage and Overlap
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What to look for in a meta search engine
- All4one, a bad example
- Metacrawler, integration, power search, customization
- Dogpile, no integration, configuration
- Vivisimo, clustering/folder
- Query Server, folder
- ixquick, selection, ranking
- One2seek, natural language searching, rich search options
- Surfwax, abstracts, preference, focus
- Metor Search, checking urls, analysis,
browsing
- Ask Jeeves
- Meta search engine drawbacks and limitations
- selection of search engines
- search options
- number of results
- search options
- More information and collections
- Metacrawlers, from SearchEngineWatch.com
- All-in-One Search Page
- Search.com
- Search utilities
- CompletePlanet and LexiBot