Meta Search Engines - Primary Sites

Flipper is a meta search engine that not only displays results from other search engines and from the Open Directory, but from sites that are part of the invisible web, as well. Most of these deep web sites are commercially oriented, but there are also useful information sites for things like music and films.

Popular metasearch site that sends a search to a customizable list of search engines, directories and specialty search sites, then displays results from each search engine individually. Owned by InfoSpace, which also owns MetaCrawler.

iBoogie allows you to select results from the web, products or services from the "BuyWeb," or limit your queries to the deep web, images, video or audio. It also performs real-time clustering of results, creating a list of categories related to your search terms for easy browsing.

Formerly a crawler based search engine with its own index, it was transformed into a meta search engine when purchased by InfoSpace in 2001.

In a compact format, InfoGrid provides direct links to major search sites and topical web sites in different categories. Meta search and news searching is also offered.

One of the oldest meta search services, MetaCrawler began in July 1995 at the University of Washington. MetaCrawler was purchased by InfoSpace, an online content provider, in Feb. 97.

This site is primarily designed to demonstrate classification technology from Infogistics. It's a meta search engine, and it does topical classification of results. However, it is unique in that you can select several different topics, then "drill down" to see results from all of them, rather than being restricted to the results from only one topic.

Mamma is an unusual meta search engine in that it only searches a few major indexes -- the rest of the sites queried are directories or paid-placement services.

Ithaki is probably the most "global" of all meta search engines, available in 14 languages and offering more than 35 different categories for limiting your search. In addition, Ithaki offers country specific search, querying only local search engines rather than the regional versions of the major search engines.

Search.com is a meta search engine operated by CNET. It offers both web-wide search and a wide variety of specialty search options. Search.com uses technology from SavvySearch, which was acquired by CNET in October 1999. The SavvySearch site itself no longer operates. SavvySearch was one of the older metasearch services, around since May 1995 and formerly based at Colorado State University

Meta search engine that ranks results based on the number of "top 10" rankings a site receives from the various search engines.

Unlike metacrawlers, all-in-one search pages do not send your query to many search engines at the same time. Instead, they generally list a wide-variety of search engines and allow you to search at your choice without having to go directly to that search engine. See All-In-One Search Pages for a list of these type of resources.

If you like the idea of seeing your web results visually, this meta search site shows the results with sites being interconnected by keywords. It also presents a thematic map that shows the most important sites and the linkage relationships among the various results.

Brings back listings from several major search engines as well as "Invisible Web" resources. Formerly based at the University of Kansas, the site was purchased by search company Intelliseek in April 2000.

Want to get multiple pages of results from a search engine combined into one single page? QB-Search will quickly join up to 200 pages of listings from major search engines.

Search against major web-wide search engines, as well as major news, health, money and government search services

SearchOnline is a relatively new service, but one that offers a highly flexible and customizable interface to a wide variety of information sources, ranging from general web results to specialized search resources in a number of subject specific categories.

Searches against major engines or provides those who open free accounts the ability to chose 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. Allows results or documents to be saved for future use.

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.

Meta Search Engines - Other Sites

Metasearch against several major search engines or within subject categories.

C4 allows meta searching against several major search engines.

This meta search engine provides results from AllTheWeb, AltaVista, Google, Open Directory, Teoma, Wisenut and Yahoo. Advanced search offers access to more than 1,000 specialized resources, searchable by category.

IcySpicy is both a meta search engine offering results from Google, Overture, MSN, WiseNut, FindWhat, etc., and a collection of useful directory links and search forms for package tracking, movie locations, and so on.

Queries AltaVista, AOL, Open Directory, Excite, HotBot, AllTheWeb, FindWhat, MSN, Teoma, Yahoo and 7search. Results also offer useful links to "site info" and "Alexa info" which appear in popup windows.

Moonmist allows you to do a general or country specific meta search.
Results include links to site info and a link to the Wayback machine's archived copies of the underlying result page.

Searches 15 U.K. engines. The advanced search form allows you to change the order that results are presented, either by speed or manually to suit your own preferences.

Spanish metacrawler that searches on the more popular search engines. Motor de busqueda que busca tu consulta en los buscadores mas populares en espanol.

Turbo10 is a metasearch Engine accesses both traditional web search engines and some invisible web databases, with a very speedy interface.

Watson is a "Swiss Army Knife" with nineteen interfaces to web content and services -- an improvement on Sherlock, with nearly twice as many tools, including Google Searching.

Easy to choose exactly which search engines you wish to query, and the same listings found at multiple search engines are combined together.

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