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MetaSearch Engines
- C4 (Internet Directory
and
Metasearch)
C4
is built on the world's most advanced Parallel Search
technology. C4 is not a single database like other
Internet search sites. Parallel searching provides you
with the ability to search more than one database at a
time, while returning only the most relevant search
results. They search the search engines, more than 20
of the industry's best, to deliver only the most
relevant results from all of them. C4 SearchSystems
wanted to provide end users with the ultimate in
search, a destination search site that delivered
results that were the best of the best, making their
searches user-friendly and efficient. This was the
genesis of C4.com, where users can "see for" whatever
they need to find, from research to e-commerce to
people, anything they need. By powering the site with
C4 TotalSearch parallel search technology, that's
exactly what they achieved. C4.com gives users a great
search relevance on the Web, with an easy-to-use
format that puts all the power of advanced search at
their fingertips, including their exceptional
Marketplace for shopping and QuickLinks for
categorized
searching.
http://www.c4.com/
- Dogpile (Internet
Directory and
Metasearch)
The
Dogpile metasearch interface takes a single query and
processes it so that you will get the maximum benefit
from your search. It supports many of the Web's most
popular search tools. They are: (1) WWW: LookSmart,
GoTo.com, Dogpile Web Catalog, Dogpile Open Directory,
Direct Hit, About.com, Lycos' Top 5%, InfoSeek, Real
Names, AltaVista, Lycos, and Yahoo!; (2) Usenet:
Deja.com, Altavista and Deja.com's old Database; (3)
FTP: Fast FTP Search; (4) Newsrcawler: Thunderstone;
(5) Stock Quotes: Quoteserver; (6) Yellow Pages:
Infospace; (7) White Pages: Infospace; (8) Maps:
Infospace; and (9) Weather: Weather
Underground.
http://www.dogpile.com/
- Go2Net
(Metasearch)
Go2Net
is one of the Internet's leading networks, providing
consumer services, business services and enabling
services. The company offers through the World Wide
Web a network of branded properties and aggregated
content in the categories of search and directory,
personal finance, multi-player games, small business
services and ecommerce solutions. The company also
develops Internet technologies for its own network and
for license to strategic partners. The Go2Net Network
SM is home to many
of the Internet's leading vertical destinations,
including: MetaCrawler®, Silicon Investor SM , the HyperMart
Network ®, PlaySite SM
, Dogpile SM
and 100hot ®. Media Metrix ranks The Go2Net
Network as the 10th most-trafficked network on the
Internet (November
1999).
http://www.go2net.com/
- inFind
(Metasearch)
inFind
began in May 1995 and moved to its present domain in
October of 1996. InFind calls out in parallel several
of the best search engines on the internet, merges the
results, removes redundancies, and clusters the
results into neat understandable groupings. Currently
this metasearch calls ten of the leading Internet
search engines. Each of these search engines is
automatically called in parallel, and retrieves the
maximum number of results each engine will allow.
Therefore, without InFind, it would take you 10
searches by hand, and still you couldn't produce the
huge list of results that InFind does. That's because
InFind searches each engine with the absolute maximum
each engine will allow. This is far greater than the
default that most users search with. This is where
"clustering" comes in. After retrieving this huge list
results, InFind clusters the search results.
Clustering is basically a process of putting similar
items together. While other search engines sort their
results by how well they match the query, InFind gets
all the best results, and then groups the related
items together. This makes the large results returned
very understandable. You can quickly seee which
documents are relevant and which are
irrelevant.
http://www.infind.com/
- Ixquick
(Metasearch)
Ixquick
searches many prominent engines simultaneously (in
parallel). Ixquick translates your search into each
search engine's syntax. Users can also perform natural
language or complex boolean searches with Ixquick.
Ixquick supports phrases, wildcards, omitted terms,
must-have terms, parentheses, and other modifiers such
as NEAR, because Ixquick knows which search engines
can cope with which complex searches. Ixquick
eliminates duplicates and awards one star for each
search engine that placed a site in its top ten. Since
different search engines value different content, a
site that appears in multiple top ten lists is likely
to be very pertinent! Ixquick prioritizes sites that
appear earlier in the top ten rankings--and tells you
the rankings. Ixquick upholds the democratic ideal of
one search engine, one vote, even when a search engine
mentions the same site often in its top ten. It
searches from the following search engines: (1) Aol;
(2) AltaVista; (3) EuroSeek; (4) Excite; (5) Fast
Search; (6) GoTo.com; (7) Hotbot; (8)InfoSeek; (9)
LookSmart; (10) MSN; (11) NBCi; (12) Webcrawler; (13)
Yahoo; and (14)
xRefer.
http://ixquick.com/eng/
- Mamma.com
(Metasearch)
Mamma.com,
"The Mother of All Search Engines," is recognized as
one of the top Meta Search Engines on the Internet
today. Mamma.com has been experiencing explosive
growth since its inception in 1996 and presently
services approximately 4.9 million unique users on a
monthly basis. Mamma.com is the largest independently
owned Meta Search Engine on the Internet. The
continued popularity and fast growth of the Mamma.com
Meta Search Engine is testament to the superior value
it provides the end user. Mamma.com is a "Smart Meta
Search Engine." When the user enters a query at the
Mamma.com website, Mamma's powerful proprietary
technology simultaneously queries 10 of the major
Search Engines and properly formats the words and
syntax for each source being probed. Mamma then
creates a virtual database, organizes the results into
a uniform format and presents them by relevance and
source. In this manner, Mamma.com provides the end
user with a highly relevant and comprehensive set of
search
results.
http://www.mamma.com/
- MetaCrawler (Internet
Directory and
Metasearch)
MetaCrawler
is one of the oldest World Wide Web search service
developed in 1994 at the University of Washington and
now operated by Go2Net, Inc and powers their searches.
MetaCrawler differs from other search services in that
it does not maintain an internal database. Instead it
relies on the databases of various Web-based sources.
MetaCrawler may send your query to several Web search
engines, including AltaVista, Excite, GoTo.com,
Infoseek, LookSmart, Lycos, Thunderstone, and
WebCrawler. MetaCrawler queries the other search
engines, organizes the results into a uniform format,
ranks them by relevance and returns them to the user.
With MetaCrawler, you also have the option of scoring
the hits. The list of results that is displayed can be
sorted by a number of different ways, including by
relevance and source. Users may also select to search
auctions, the metacrawler Directory, audio/MP3,
images, Newsgroups, and streaming
media.
http://www.metacrawler.com/index.html
- Profusion (Internet
Directory and
Metasearch)
Created
by intelliseek, ProFusion searches the best engines on
the Internet. Founded in 1997, Intelliseek is a
privately held Internet infrastructure company
providing next generation search, tracking and
personalization services. Funded by Nokia Ventures,
River Cities Capital Fund and Chrysalis Ventures,
Intelliseek has become a leading provider of
Infrastructure for Intelligent Portals™. In the past
12 months, company has received over 30 major industry
awards and closed many strategic partnerships,
including ZDNet, InfoSpace and Lycos. The metasearch
allows users to search the following engines: (1)
About; (2) All the Web; (3) AltaVista; (4) AOL; (5)
Britannica; (6) Direct Hit; (7) Excite; (8) Go.com;
(9) LookSmart; (10) Lycos; (11) MSN; (12) NBCi; (13)
Netscape; (14) Raging Search; and (15) Yahoo. Check
out the ProFusson Beta site below for new
features.
http://www.profusion.com/
http://beta.profusion.com/
- qbSearch.com
(Metasearch)
This
search is powered by Quickbrowse. Quickbrowse.com was
created by freelance journalist Marc Fest, when he
invented a way to speed up the way he viewed
information on the web by literally "stitching
together" multiple web pages for faster viewing. 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. It's a simple, helpful tool that you'll no
doubt need at some point. Another powerful offering is
QB-Masterpage, which will combine URLs that you select
into a single page for quick browsing. Both are
available from QuickBrowse. Other sections to search
include Comics, Tech news, Football, Baseball,
myQuickbrowse, Newsstand, and Stocks. Users can select
the following search engines: (1) AltaVista; (2)
Goto.com; (3) FindWhat; (4) Lycos/Hotbot; (5)
AskJeeves; (6) Go/Infoseek; (7) Excite; (8) About.com;
(9)NBCi; (10) Yahoo; (11) LookSmart; (12) Raging
Search; (13)Sprinks.com; (14) Direct Hit; (15) Web
Crawler; (16) AllTheWeb; (17) NorthernLight; (18) Meta
Crawler; and (19)
Deja.com.
http://www.qbsearch.com/
- Search.com (Internet
Directory and
Metasearch)
Used
to be SaveySearch, now Search.com is a service
provided by CNET.com. SavvySearch was one of the older
metasearch services, around since May 1995 and was
formerly based at Colorado State University. It now
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. This new metasearch engine searches the
following and 800 more specialized engines in real
time: (1) Yahoo!; (2) Direct Hit; (3) Lycos; (4)
Inktomi; and (5) GoTo.com. You can enter your query in
the form provided to metasearch the major search
engines and guides, or select one of the specialized
metasearch or metashop
categories.
http://www.search.com/
- MyStartingPoint
(Internet Directory and
Metasearch)
Originally
launched as Starting-Point (www.stpt.com) and now as
MyStartingPoint we've been helping people "Get to the
Point" since 1996. What is MyStartingPoint?
MyStartingPoint.com (a wholly owned subsidiary of
TechLabs, Inc. (OTC BB: TKLB)) is a full featured
Internet search resource. The sites broad range of
features and functions continue to make
MyStartingPoint one the "most linked" sites on the Web
with over 100,000* individual links pointing to their
site..
http://www.stpt.com/
- SurfWax
(Metasearch)
SurfWax
was created as a visual tool for composing search
criteria before beginning a search, giving users the
opportunity to "focus" their search without the often
frustrating process of entering a word, submitting it
to a search engine, linking to the many URLs (web
pages) cited, and then repeating the whole process
with different words. SurfWax uses one of the best
tools possible, your own recognition of meaningful
alternative words, to help you focus your search.
SurfWax's high speed and relevant results have
propelled it into the ranks of the major meta-search
engines. Our goal is to be "Your Source for Internet
Search Satisfaction."™ and to enable your access to
knowledge. Surfwax is the only search site to offer
four seamless dimensions for Internet searching: (1)
The 1st dimension helps you focus your search
(meaning-based FocusWords®); (2) The 2nd dimension
(SearchBlanket™) offers "consolidated meta-searching"
from multipe search sources to give you a concise list
of the top search results for a large portion of the
web; (3) A 3rd dimension -- unique, real-time
SiteSnaps™ (web page abstracts) that help you "review"
a web site with more consistent and meaningful
information. SiteSnap content is always current (never
cached or stale), and it can be personalized to
reflect your unique style and preferences, so you can
more easily gauge content before linking to a page;
and (4) A 4th dimension, My Personal Searcher™ which
harnesses your search Patterns to help you to
"personalize" your search. SurfWax was the first site
to offer this method of tracking your search criteria
and key concepts
(FocusWords).
http://www.surfwax.com/servlet/home
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