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Search the Web: Meta Search Engines

Meta Search Engines simultaneously search other search engines. They are limited as a comprehensive search tool but do retrieve the top 10-50 hits from each search engine.

Meta Search Engines Description
Clusty http://www.clusty.com Clusty, from Vivisimo, presents both standard web search results and Vivisimo's dynamic clusters that automatically categorize results. Clusty allows you to use clustering technology on ten different types of web content including material from the web, image, weblog and shopping databases. You can access each type of search by simply clicking a tab directly above the search box.

Dogpile www.dogpile.com/

Results retrieved include sponsored links within regular results. It includes simultaneous searches of subject directories, usenet news, news wires, business news FTP etc.

Ixquick - http://ixquick.com/

Brings "top 10" from over 12 search engines. Prioritizes results & eliminates duplicates. Uses natural language, Boolean,& phrase searches. Also does news, MP3, and pictures searches.

KartOO - http://www.kartoo.com/

KartOO is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. KartOO launches your query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive map.s

SurfWax

www.surfwax.com

A better than average set of search engines.Can mix with educational, US Govt tools, and news sources, or many other categories. Click on magnifyer image to view helpful "SiteSnap™" extracted from most sites in frame on right.

Beaucoup http://www.beaucoup.com/
Beaucoup logo
Well organized lists of 1200+ search engines, directories and indices that are in different subject categories.

Proteus Internet Search www.thrall.org/proteus.html

An easy way to access 30 of the most popular search engines and meta search tools.
Pagebull http://www.pagebull.com/ Pagebull is your visual Internet search engine.It gives you actual screenshots of the search results.
Pandia
http://www.pandia.com/index.html

Pandia logo
The London-based Turbo10 metasearch engine has now added parts of the "hidden Web" to its search results.
Mamma:Mother of All Search Engines www.mamma.com/
Mamma logo
Searches up to seven search engines at once,both the web or usenet, results don't tell you which one. Results are fast with annotated and Top 1% rated sites.

Jux2

http://www.jux2.com/

This search result comparison allows you to search two major search engines at the same time, then see results that are found on both first, followed by results found on only one. The overlap visual tool help to explain search engine overlap and why one search engine may not cover everything.

Search. com
www.search.com/

Search.com logo
Good for finding specialized search engines, more than 400 that find all kinds of information.

 Articles on Meta Search Engines and All in One Search Tools:

Meta-Search Engines from UC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshops. Includes a table of features of Meta-Search Engines.

Metacrawlers and Metasearch Engines. By Chris Sherman, Associate Editor - March 23, 2005

 
 
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