Metabrowsing stitches together information from multiple Web sites and presents it as
one source. A great example is Quickbrowse, a search-engine portal that combines
information from Yahoo, AltaVista, Deja.com, Google, WebCrawler, MetaCrawler, and
NewsIndex into one page of bookmarkable search results. We searched Quickbrowse for
"technology stocks" at Google and got 20 pages of results organized as one
continuous page. You can bet major search engines will pay attention to this nifty,
Perl-based tool. The home page consists of one textbox, two pulldown lists, and a button -
so simple it's ultra-retro. For researchers it could be ultra-useful. Quickbrowse has a
patent pending, help from venture capitalists, and kudos. Like many great ideas, it
started at a beach - to wit, South Beach in Miami. Marc Fest wrote the original utility to
make his work as a freelance writer go faster. To quote another reviewer, "Simple but
ingenious." Indeed. http://www.quickbrowse.com/qbsearch/
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