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These sites do not crawl the web themselves to build an index. Instead they allow searches to be sent to several search engines all at once. The results are then unified. They may either present results from each engine one after the other (parallel search), or blend them, removing duplicates.Entries
Answers.com http://www.answers.com/
A wiki Q&A site combined with a free online dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia.
Dogpile Web Search http://www.dogpile.com/
Meta-search engine.
WebCrawler http://www.webcrawler.com/
InfoSpace product offering combined results from Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and Ask. Searches the Web or only images, video, and news. Also offers white pages, and yellow pages.
Info.com http://info.com/
Info.com is a search platform which draws together for one search request the results of up to 14 of the most populer and respected search engines and PPC directories. It also provides a wide range of specialist subject search tools for reference, health, shopping and many more.
Ixquick http://ixquick.com/
Meta-search engine.
Scour http://www.scour.com/
Combined results from Google, Yahoo, Bing, and OneRiot, enhanced with user feedback.
Yippy.com http://www.yippy.com/
Mega Widget, entertainment and communications portal.
Mamma.com The Mother of all Search Engines http://www.mamma.com/
A globally popular meta-search engine, Mamma.com brings forth refined search results from the web’s top search engines like; Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and Ask to help users efficiently find the information they seek. Originally introduced as the first meta-search engine in 1996, Mamma.com has now amplified into a complete media company offering services to high quality content producers & premium inventory to online advertisers.
Atnio http://www.atnio.com/
Metasearch engine offering search of the web, images, news and video.
Findelio http://www.findelio.com/
Web Directory and Metasearch engine with country specific search option.
SearchBug http://www.searchbug.com/
Professional search tool to find and investigate people and businesses, research phone numbers and addresses
Monster Crawler http://www.monstercrawler.com/
Offers search results combined from Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Ask.
Snap http://www.snap.com/search.php
Meta search with a strongly visual interface suitable for broadband users. Results are on the left and site preview on the right. It draws on data from Gigablast, Ask and other sources.
Mooter http://www.mooter.com/
Clusters search results. It presents a diagram of themes within the results, from which the user can select one or all results. Options to search Australian sites only or the full Web.
Search66 http://search66.com/
Metasearches the whole Web or restricts search between some countries. Duplicate results are eliminated and these from the same domain clustered.
SurfWax http://www.surfwax.com/
Meta-search engine that provides real-time page summaries - 'site snaps'. Those who open free accounts can select from a list of hundreds of search sources, and save and share what they find.
Hophunt http://www.hophunt.com/
Meta search engine offering search of the general web, images, audio, video, shopping, jobs and news. Also offers free ppc ads.
Polymeta.com http://www.polymeta.com/
Metasearch engine with clustering
Riight http://www.riight.com/
Riight.com has changed the landscape of search engines by combining results from Google, Yahoo,Bing and Twitter into one intuitive design. Search the Web. It's all Riight here.
Searchy http://www.searchy.com/
Queries major search engines and serves the results in a sequence of 10 per source in the default setting. Advanced options include combined results and choice of engine.
PerfectSE http://www.perfectse.com/
Metasearch engine with voting capability.
AllPlus http://www.allplus.com/
Universal metasearch and discovery engine with clustering. Displaying results, news, video, images, blogs in a single result page.
Zworks http://www.zworks.com/
Searches several popular search engines simultaneously or individually. Results are collated and ranked for relevancy with redundancies removed, includes filtered, Boolean and advanced options.
FuzzFind http://www.fuzzfind.com/
A web search mashup that combines user personalized search results from the leading search engines (Google, Bing and Yahoo! Search) and social bookmarking sites (del.icio.us).
Snoot.ru http://www.snoot.ru/
A multilingual metasearch service with thumbshots of the results.
Stream City http://StreamCity.com/
Meta search combines multiple search engine results together. Also offers products, news, weather, and online services.
Gopher http://www.gopher.com/
Gopher doesn't search just one search engine. It combs many top search engines such as AltaVista, Direct Hit, Looksmart and About - at the same time.
Gnome http://gnome.com/
Queries multiple search engines simultaneously with the same or different words. Options include serving results separately, interleaved or combined in alphabetical order.
Molu http://www.themolu.com/
Tree search expanding to more than 15 categories. Link extraction, conversion to PDF, Inline viewing and URL shortening.
Puffinware LLC http://www.puffinwarellc.com/
Main product is iMetaSearch, a free meta search tool for Windows. It uses cutting-edge technology (Latent Semantic Analysis) to organize and index your searches so you save time and search more effectively.
Own Mine http://www.ownmine.com/
Combined results from Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask Jeeves. Chat feature: a user may start conversation with other users searching a similar query.
MetaEureka http://www.metaeureka.com/
Search multiple engines and ODP directory.
Inetmonster http://www.inetmonster.com/
Offers Google custom searches with thumbshots, and a directory.
Agent 55 http://agent55.com/
Metasearch service, searches over 200 search engines in 20 categories.
Searches http://www.searches.com/
Options include choice between top and all engines, sorting by relevance, source, or title.
Myriad Search http://tools.seobook.com/authority-finder/
Combines the results of Google, Yahoo, MSN Search and Ask Jeeves in one advertisement-free stream, highlighted to show the source of each result. The user can exclude selected engines, or select the ratio of results from them.
Qksearch http://www.qksearch.com/
Provides web, images, mp3, jobs, and news search in 6 different languages.
Yooci http://www.yooci.com/
Supports multiple languages: English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and Dutch.
Metacca http://www.metacca.com/
Meta-search engine that delivers search results from Yahoo, Google, LookSmart, dmoz, Inktomi, Altavista, Alltheweb, Live, and other leading search engines.
LookAllWeb http://www.LookAllWeb.com/
Combined results from major search engines with pagerank.
TripleMe http://www.tripleme.com/
Results from Yahoo, Bing, and Google are presented in side-by-side columns. Duplicates can be easily removed.
MetaStrike http://www.metastrike.com/
Allows single interface to search multiple search engines with duplicates filtered out. Results list search engine sources.
Ipile http://ipile.com/
Searches over dozen search engines, auctions, jobs, MP3, the bible, forums, news, and stock quotes.
Yometa http://www.yometa.com/
Results from the three major search engines in a graphic format showing their relevance according to the different search engines.
Academic Index http://www.academicindex.net/
Provides access to academic reference and research sites recommended by teachers and librarians. Select from web pages, periodicals, United States history, or science and technology.
XSearch http://www.xclustering.com/
Groups results into meaningful groups by clustering technology. Metasearch is done for Yahoo, MSN and Wikipedia.
Metabear http://www.metabear.ru/
Offers metasearch of the world or the Russian Web, FTP, and multi-media.
Onimeta http://www.onimeta.com/
Creates a combined index from major search engines and directories. Each result comes with an option to find similar sites.
Woppee! http://search.woppee.com/search.php
Results from the major search engines with optional thumbnails.
SniperPoint http://sniperpoint.net/
Meta Search Engine which currently searches over 2000 search engines around the world.
HuntBar.com http://www.huntbar.com/
Search the web using many leading search engines. Download tool bar.
Open Text Federated Query Server http://queryserver.opentext.com/web.htm
Web search to demonstrate how this search solution can unify access to several information sources, clustering by site, by content, or both.
ApocalX http://search.apocalx.net/
Combined results from Google, Bing and Yahoo! Special search for recipes and reviews.
SSIR http://www.ssir.in/
A tier-three meta-search engine, i.e. a meta search engine which searches other meta search engines. Created as a research prototype.
elocalfinder.com http://www.elocalfinder.com/SearchEngineComparison
Combined results from Google, Yahoo, Live and Altavista. The results of the different search engines are also listed for comparison. Offers local search.
Subcategories
Question Answering Search tools that aim to answer simple factual questions posed in natural language.
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French Sites web permettant une requête d'information simultanée sur plusieurs outils de recherche. Avantage : Elargir son champs de recherche à de multiples outils. Les "Custom Search" seront
German Meta-Suchmaschinen bauen nicht selbst ein Verzeichnis oder eine Volltextdatenbank auf. Sie bedienen sich bei anderen Anbietern und kombinieren die erhaltenen Ergebnisse mehr oder weniger sinnvoll.
Italian Un Metamotore è un software installato su un sever dal quale è possibile interrogare simultaneamente diversi motori di ricerca, il che produce un numero maggiore di risultati se li paragoniamo ai
Japanese 複数の検索サービスに並行して検索をおこない、それらの検索結果をマージして表示する検索サービス。
Korean
Polish
Portuguese Estes locais não rastejam o Internet eles mesmos para construir um índice. Permitem que as buscas sejam emitidas a diversos motores de busca de uma vez. Então os resultados são unificados. Podem
Russian
Spanish Estos sitios no examinan la web ellos mismos para construir un índice. En su lugar permiten que las búsquedas sean enviadas a varios motores de búsqueda al mismo tiempo. Los resultados de cada
Turkish Bu kategoride, meta araması veya toplu arama yapan siteler listelenmektedir. Bu siteler; web sayfalarını arama motorları gibi indekslemezler. Fakat
Multi-Search Sites which offer a number of search tools on one page. Each search tool can be accessed from its own search box or via a single search box by radio buttons, drop-down list or other method. Resources
Web Clustering Clustering of Web data (pages or snippets)
Web Portals Web sites that provide a variety of internet content. Minimally the portal site should feature a search engine/directory, web based e-mail, news, and weather. Portal sites may also have auctions,
Neigbour categories
Chats and Forums Interactive sites which accommodate public discussion of search engines and directories.
Directories A Web directory is a static listing of Web links, usually built up by human editors. Directory links are usually described in a short paragraph, and categorized by subject. The Open Directory you are
FAQs, Help, and Tutorials Sites which offer guidance on how best to search the Internet.
Mailing Lists This category features email discussion lists and newsletters about search engines, directories, and Internet portals.
OpenSearch OpenSearch is a simple XML based format for the sharing of search results. OpenSearch is an open data format and open standard released under a Creative Commons license. The format is currently used
Reviews Search engine and directory comparison studies and analysis. Sites should cover a number of search engines and directories.
Search Engines A search engine is a web site connected to a database that catalogs other Web sites. It will search the actual text of other web sites. A computer search program, or spider, follows links on web pages
Weblogs Weblogs primarily about searching the Internet: news and commentary related to search engines, directories and other tools
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