A list of major metacrawlers. Unlike search engines, metacrawlers don't crawl the web themselves to build listings. Instead, they allow searches to be sent to several search engines all at once.

A new multi-search engine with yahoo,google,msn,aol,altavista search results

meta search engine

Meta search engine queries multiple web search engines. Website results are merged, ordered by relevance and pages from the same site are clustered together.

Using next-generation semantic personalization, Surf Canyon is developing Queryless Discovery™ for internet search. The patent-pending technology works with virtually any third-party search engine and assists users in finding relevant information buried deep within the search results. As content on the internet expands, it is becoming increasingly difficult for individuals to locate the information they seek among all of the irrelevant results.

A collection of Internet search engines.

Metasearch searches multiple engines
Bopple.com searches the web and ranks results from the leading search result sources. You'll be getting the best combined results from industry leading engines like Google, Yahoo! Search, and MSN. Using more search engines means a better overall coverage of the Web.

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