Meta Search Engines
Meta Search Engines
What is a meta search engine
- Unlike search engines, meta search engines don't crawl the web
themselves to build databases. Instead, they allow searches to be sent to
several search engines all at once. The results are then blended together
onto one page.
An example: Beaucoup
Why meta search engines
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Size of Web, Search Engine Coverage and Overlap
What to look for in a meta search engine
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All4one, a bad example
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Metacrawler, integration, power search, customization
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Dogpile, no integration, configuration
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Vivisimo, clustering/folder
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Query Server, folder
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ixquick, selection, ranking
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One2seek, natural language searching, rich search options
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Surfwax, abstracts, preference, focus
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Metor Search, checking urls, analysis, browsing
- Ask Jeeves
- Meta search engine drawbacks and limitations
- selection of search engines
- search options
- number of results
- More information and collections
- Search utilities
- CompletePlanet and LexiBot
