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Meta Search Engines, searches multiple search
engines:
CurryGuide
http://web.curryguide.com/
Meta search engine for the US and several European
countries, as well as in various subject areas. Has ability to save your results
for easy rerunning at a future point.
Excite
http://www.excite.com
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.
Fazzle
http://www.fazzle.com/
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.
Gimenei
http://gimenei.com/
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.
InfoGrid
http://www.infogrid.com
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
http://www.infonetware.com
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
http://www.ithaki.net/
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.
Meceoo
http://www.meceoo.com/
Meta search against AltaVista, AllTheWeb and Inktomi, with the ability to
create an "exclusion list" to block pages from particular web sites being
included. For example, want to meta search only against .org sites?
French version also offered.
MetaCrawler
http://www.metacrawler.com
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.
MetaEureka
http://www.metaeureka.com
Search against several major search engines and paid listings services.
Offers a nice option to see Alexa info about pages that are listed.
Search All in One
http://www.searchallinone.com/
Metasearch against several major search engines or within subject categories.
ProFusion
http://www.profusion.com
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.
Query Server
http://www.queryserver.com/web.htm
Search against major web-wide search engines, as well as major news, health,
money and government search services.
Turbo10
http://turbo10.com
Turbo10 is a metasearch Engine accesses both traditional web search engines
and some invisible web databases, with a very speedy interface. (Review:
Make way for the
contender to Google's crown, The Register, May 30, 2003)
Search.com
http://www.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 absorbed
SavvySearch in October 1999. SavvySearch was one of the older metasearch
services, around since May 1995 and formerly based at Colorado State University.
WebCrawler
http://www.webcrawler.com
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.
ZapMeta
http://www.zapmeta.com
Provides a variety of ways to sort the results retrieved, plus provides
interesting visualization tools and other features. (Review:
ZapMeta: A
Promising New Meta Search Engine, Feb. 26, 2004)
The metacrawlers listed below let you meta search in specific subject areas.
Family Friendly Search
http://www.familyfriendlysearch.com
Meta search service that queries major kid-friendly search engines.
Searchy.co.uk
http://www.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.
Watson for the Macintosh
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/internet_utilities/watson.html
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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