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Metasearch Engines |
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 Reproduced with permission from Ixquick. |
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Ixquick (http://www.ixquick.com) is an example of a metasearch engine. Metasearch engines search the databases of several search engines at a time (e.g., Google, Alta Vista and Live.com). |
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Other metasearch engines include Dogpile.com, Kartoo.com, Mamma.com, SurfWax.com, Clusty.com, and WebCrawler.com. |
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for an overview of your topic on the Web, seeing which search engines
will produce the best results, and for simple searches.
The downside is that sometimes it's hard to tell which search engines are included. Some metasearch engines omit major search engines such as Google. |
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