A meta-search engine is a search tool that sends user requests to several other search engines and/or databases and aggregates the results into a single list or displays them according to their source. Metasearch engines enable users to enter search criteria once and access several search engines simultaneously. Metasearch engines operate on the premise that the Web is too large for any one search engine to index it all and that more comprehensive search results can be obtained by combining the results from several search engines. This also may save the user from having to use multiple search engines separately. The term "metasearch" is frequently used to classify a set of commercial search engines, see the list of search engines, but is also used to describe the paradigm of searching multiple data sources in real time. The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) uses the terms Federated Search and Metasearch interchangeably to describe this web search paradigm. Metasearch...

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Metasearch engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Metasearch engines enable users to enter search criteria once and access several search engines simultaneously. ... The term "metasearch" is frequently used to classify a set of ...
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Dogpile Web Search
Dogpile fetches and ranks results from multiple search engines, letting you search for key words, pictures, audio, video, news, or phone numbers from a single page. ...
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Ixquick Metasearch
Forwards searches to a user selected list of top search engines. Ranks results based on number of occurrences in queried engines.
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Mamma.com is a global Meta search engine. It provides extensive web search and fetches results from top search engines. If you need information on latest news and ...
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Meta-Search Engines
Meta-search engines do not own a database of Web pages; they send your search terms to the databases maintained by search engine companies. ...
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Babieca Search
Babieca Metasearch is a comprehensive Meta Search engine offering search results from vertical search engines like video search engines, jobs meta search, news, ...
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Metasearch engine: Information from Answers.com
metasearch engine The search engine software that is used to search other search engines. See metasearch site
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Metasearch engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Metacrawlers and Metasearch Engines - Search Engine Watch (SEW)
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