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Below are especially well-known, well-used or long-established meta search services.
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Go2Net / MetaCrawler
http://www.go2net.com/One of the oldest meta search services, MetaCrawler began in July 1995 at the University of Washington. MetaCrawler was purchased by go2net, an online content provider, in Feb. 97. The commercial backing has helped improve the responsiveness of the service. MetaCrawler now powers searches at the Go2Net portal site. (more about Go2Net)
SavvySearch
http://www.savvysearch.com/Another one of the older metasearch services, around since May 1995 and formerly based at Colorado State University. It is highly customizable and coveres a huge-range of general and specialty search sites.
Search.com
http://www.search.com/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.
Dogpile
http://www.dogpile.com/Popular metasearch site that sends a search to a customizable list of search engines, directories and specialty search sites. Dogpile also runs the MetaFind metasearch site that sends searches only to crawler-based search engines.
Inference Find
http://www.infind.com/An alternative to typical metacrawlers, Inference lists results grouped by subject, rather than by search engine or in one giant list. For example, a search for "Uma Thurman" groups results into "Uma Thurman" and "Pulp Fiction," among other categories. It taps into Alta Vista, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, WebCrawler and Yahoo. The service began in May 1995, moving to its present domain in Oct. 1996.
Ixquick
http://www.ixquick.comMeta search engine that ranks results based on the number of "top 10" rankings a site receives from the various search engines.
ProFusion
http://www.profusion.com/Customizable, with broken link detection available. Formerly based at the University of Kansas.
QuickBrowse
http://www.quickbrowse.com/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 Yahoo, AltaVista, WebCrawler, Google or Go2Net's MetaCrawler. 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.
Mamma
http://www.mamma.com/Sends search requests to major search services.
TeRespondo
http://www.terespondo.comSpanish metacrawler that searches on the more popular search engines. It also has a database of questions and answers that aid the user when searching, similar to Ask Jeeves. Motor de busqueda que busca tu consulta en los buscadores mas populares en espanol.
The Big Hub
http://www.thebighub.com/Allows you to search many major search engines or a huge number of specialty sites, all from the same place. Formerly the Internet Sleuth.
C4
http://www.c4.comC4 allows meta searching against several major search engines, with a nice, clean interface.
SurfWax.com
http://www.surfwax.comSearches the major search engines, removes duplicate results, provides context highlighting, helps users focus search words, provides detailed page summaries.
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