Meta search engines

Definition of Meta search engine

A meta-search engine is a search engine that search's user's query to several others search engines combines the result of all search engines into one result and display them after removing duplicates.

  The Idea is, Web is too large for any search engine to index it all and user can get good result by combining the result from several search engines, this can save users time from having to use multiple search engines individually.Difficult to find first and oldest meta-search engine but the story started from 1994.

Most popular Meta search engines

Dogpile

Searches Google, Yahoo, LookSmart, Ask.com, MSN search, and more. 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.

http://www.dogpile.com/

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. Slick and easy to use.

http://vivisimo.com/

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

http://mamma.com/

Kartoo

Presents results and related links in a graphical map based format.

http://kartoo.com/

SurfWax

Searches against major engines or provides those who open free accounts the ability to choose 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.

http://www.surfwax.com/

Clusty

Currently searches a number of free, search engines and directories, not Google or Yahoo.Clusty, from Vivisimo, presents both standard web search results and Vivisimo's dynamic clusters that automatically categorize results.

http://clusty.com/

Webcrawler

The search engine crawls in Yahoo, Google, MSN, Ask search engines. Founder of webcrawler professor of computer science at Binghamton University, State University of New York Weiyi Meng said "We have a completely different perspective. We want to build large-scale metasearch engines on top of many small search engines."The interesting thing is just type a question and get your answer in the search engine.

http://www.webcrawler.com/

Complete list of Meta search engines

1. http://7metasearch.com/
   
2. http://37.com/
   
3. http://all4one.com/
   
4. http://file-extension.net/seeker
   
5. http://findelio.com/
   
6. http://ilectric.com/
   
7. http://www.ixquick.com/
   
8. http://www.ithaki.net/indexu.htm
   
9. http://www.infogrid.com/
   
10. http://www.iboogie.tv/
    
11. http://monstercrawler.com/
    
12. http://seekky.com/
    
13. http://turbo10.com/
    
14. http://www.allonesearch.com/
    
15. http://www.ask.co.uk/
    
16. http://www.ask.com/
    
17. http://www.askjeeves.com/
    
18. http://www.beaucoup.com/
    
19. http://www.dosearch.com/
    
20. http://www.expressfind.com/
    
21. http://www.excite.com/
    
22. http://www.findspot.com/
    
23. http://www.flexfinder.com/
    
24. http://www.formgle.com/
    
25. http://www.glseek.com/
    
26. http://www.ixquick.com/
    
27. http://www.kywordpro.com/
    
28. http://www.megaspider.com/
    
29. http://www.metacrawler.com/
    
30. http://www.metasearch.ie/
    
31. http://www.multimeta.com/
    
32. http://www.multimeta.de/
    
33. http://www.ownmine.com/
    
34. http://www.profusion.com/
    
35. http://www.queryserver.com/
    
36. http://www.search.com/
    
37. http://www.searchthingy.com/search.asp
    
38. http://www.slurk.com/
    
39. http://www.surfwax.com/
    
40. http://www.theinfo.com/
    
41. http://www.tripleme.com/
    
42. http://www.veoda.com/
    
43. http://www.wbsearch.com/
    
44. http://www.webfetch.com/
    
45. http://www.whatuseek.com/
    
46. http://chubba.whatuseek.com/
    
47. http://www.widow.com/