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METACRAWLERS
AND METASEARCH ENGINES LIST
Vivisimo
Enter a search term, and Vivismo will
not only pull back matching responses from major search engines
but also automatically organize the pages into categories.
EZ2WWW
This meta search engine provides results
from AllTheWeb, AltaVista, Google, Open Directory, Teoma, Wisenut
and Yahoo. Advanced search offers access to more than 1,000 specialized
resources, searchable by category.
Kartoo
If you like the idea of seeing your
web results visually, this meta search site shows the results with
sites being interconnected by keywords.
SurfWax
Searches against major engines or provides
those who open free accounts the ability to chose from a list of
hundreds. Using the "SiteSnaps" feature, you can preview any page
in the results and see where your terms appear in the document.
Allows results or documents to be saved for future use.
Fazzle
Fazzle offers a highly flexible and customizable
interface to a wide variety of information sources, ranging from
general web results to specialized search resources in a number
of subject specific categories. Formerly called SearchOnline.
InfoGrid
In a compact format, InfoGrid provides direct
links to major search sites and topical web sites in different categories.
Meta search and news searching is also offered.
Infonetware
RealTerm Search
This site is primarily designed to demonstrate
classification technology from Infogistics. It's a meta search engine,
and it does topical classification of results, like Vivisimo. However,
it is unique in that you can select several different topics, then
"drill down" to see results from all of them, rather than being
restricted to the results from only one topic.
Ithaki
Ithaki is probably the most "global" of
all meta search engines, available in 14 languages and offering
more than 35 different categories for limiting your search. In addition,
Ithaki offers country specific search, querying only local search
engines rather than the regional versions of the major search engines.
Ixquick
Meta search engine that ranks results
based on the number of "top 10" rankings a site receives from the
various search engines.
ProFusion
Brings back listings from several major
search engines as well as "Invisible Web" resources. Formerly based
at the University of Kansas, the site was purchased by search company
Intelliseek
in April 2000.
qbSearch
Want to get multiple pages of results
from a search engine combined into one single page? QB-Search will
quickly join up to 200 pages of listings from major search engines.
Query
Server
Search against major web-wide search
engines, as well as major news, health, money and government search
services.
Turbo10
Turbo10 is a metasearch Engine accesses
both traditional web search engines and some invisible web databases,
with a very speedy interface.
Dogpile
Popular metasearch site owned by InfoSpace
that sends a search to a customizable list of search engines, directories
and specialty search sites, then displays results from each search
engine individually.
Excite
Formerly a crawled-based search engine,
Excite was acquired by InfoSpace in 2002 and uses the same underlying
technology as the other InfoSpace meta search engines, but maintains
its own portal features.
MetaCrawler
One of the oldest meta search services,
MetaCrawler began in July 1995 at the University of Washington.
MetaCrawler was purchased by InfoSpace, an online content provider,
in Feb. 97.
Webcrawler
Formerly a crawled-based search engine owned
by Excite, Webcrawler was acquired by InfoSpace in 2002 and uses
the same underlying technology as the other InfoSpace meta search
engines, but offers a fast and clean, ad-free interface.
Mamma
Founded in 1996, Mamma.com is one of
the oldest meta search engines on the web. Mamma searches against
a variety of major crawlers, directories and specialty search sites.
The service also provides a paid listings option for advertisers,
Mamma
Classifieds.
Search.com
Search.com is a meta search engine operated
by CNET. It offers both web-wide search and a wide variety of specialty
search options. Search.com uses technology from SavvySearch, which
was acquired by CNET in October 1999. The SavvySearch site itself
no longer operates. SavvySearch was one of the older metasearch
services, around since May 1995 and formerly based at Colorado State
University.
1Blink
Metasearch against several major search
engines or within subject categories.
Gimenei
Gimenei queries an undisclosed number of
search engines and removes duplicates from results. Its most useful
feature is an advanced search form that allows you to limit your
search to a specific country.
IcySpicy
IcySpicy is both a meta search engine offering
results from Google, Overture, MSN, WiseNut, FindWhat, etc., and
a collection of useful directory links and search forms for package
tracking, movie locations, and so on.
MetaEureka
Search against several major search engines
and paid listings services. Offers a nice option to see Alexa info
about pages that are listed.
Moonmist
Moonmist allows you to do a general or country
specific meta search. Results include links to site info and a link
to the Wayback machine's archived copies of the underlying result
page.
Widow
Meta Search
Easy to choose exactly which search engines
you wish to query, and the same listings found at multiple search
engines are combined together.
Family
Friendly Search
Meta search service that queries major
kid-friendly search engines.
Searchy.co.uk
Searches 15 U.K. engines. The advanced search
form allows you to change the order that results are presented,
either by speed or manually to suit your own preferences.
TeRespondo
Spanish metacrawler that searches on
the more popular search engines.
Watson
for the Macintosh
Watson is a "Swiss Army Knife" with
nineteen interfaces to web content and services -- an improvement
on Sherlock, with nearly twice as many tools, including Google
Searching.
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