Meta Search Engines

MetaCrawler

MetaCrawler is an multithreaded search site that can take your search terms and simultaneously feed them to several sites, including AltaVista, Excite, Lycos, WebCrawler, and Yahoo, It organizes the results into a uniform format and displays them. MetaCrawler combines and normalizes the confidence scores given to each reference by the services that return it.

AccuFind

The AccuFind JavaScript search engine brings together multiple search engines under several categories: hot, books, business, government, law, life, news, reference, shopping and technical. You can select a category first, then select a search engine from the pull-down menu within the category, and submit a query to the search engine.

ixquick

Ixquick translates your search into each search engine's syntax. Users can perform natural language or complex boolean searches. It supports phrases, wildcards, omitted terms, must-have terms, parentheses, and other modifiers such as NEAR, by tracking the complex search capabilities of each search engine. Duplicate findings are eliminated..

qbsearch

This meta-search option stitches the results from various search engines together. It also lets you easily choose which search engines you want before performing your search. However, by default, it will search at only five services including AltaVista and Yahoo. The remaining three services provide paid listings.

vivisimo

Gives you access to a wide number of major search engines when using the default settings. Paid listings are non-existent. Vivísimo was founded in June 2000 to develop a university-based algorithmic invention into a solid commercial product. It organizes search results with document clustering. This innovative approach emphasizes the knowledge that users hope to find rather than the mathematical elegance of the algorithms.