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Meta Search Engines
In a meta-search engine, you submit keywords in its search box, and it transmits your search simultaneously to several individual search engines and their databases of web pages. Within a few seconds, you get back results from all the search engines queried. Meta-search engines do not own a database of Web pages; they send your search terms to the databases maintained by search engine companies. Few meta-searchers allow you to delve into the largest, most useful search engine databases. They tend to return results from smaller and/or free search engines and miscellaneous free directories, often small and highly commercial.
| Meta search engine |
Owner |
Primary web data base |
Ad database |
Special features |
| Vivisimo |
Vivisimo |
Ask, MSN, Gigablast, Looksmart, Open Directory, Wisenut |
Google |
Clusters results |
| Clusty |
Vivisimo |
Ask, MSN, Gigablast, Looksmart, Open Directory, Wisenut |
Google |
Clusters results |
| Ixquick |
Surfboard Holding, BV |
AltaVista, EntireWeb, Gigablast, Go, Looksmart,Netscape, Open Directory, Wisenut, Yahoo |
Yahoo |
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| Dogpile |
InfoSpace |
Ask, Google, MSN, Yahoo!, Teoma, Open Directory, more |
Google, Yahoo |
All top 4 engines |
| Mamma |
Mamma Media Solutions |
About, Ask, Business.com, EntireWeb, Gigablast, Open Directory, Wisenut |
Miva, Ask |
Refine options |
| Kartoo |
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AlltheWeb, AltaVista, EntireWeb, Exalead, Hotbot, Looksmart, Lycos, MSN, Open Directory, Voila, Wisenut, Yahoo |
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Visual results display |
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