Meta-search engines

[Jack Solock]

Meta-search engines, as I understand them, are search engines that search
multiple search engines, either at the same time, or one by one.

Some examples that search multiple engines at once are:

MetaCrawler
http://www.metacrawler.com/

SavvySearch
http://savvy.cs.colostate.edu:2000/

DogPile and MetaSearch
http://www.dogpile.com/
http://www.metafind.com/

An example of a meta-search page that searches one site at a time,
but contains connections to hundreds of search sites is:


c|net's search.com
http://search.com

Hope this helps.

Jack

Jack Solock					jacks at cs.wisc.edu
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On Thu, 29 May 1997, CAPUTO CORINNE wrote:

> Would someone please explain to me what a meta-search engine is?  
> Could you give me some examples please?  I am in a marathon to learn 
> as much of the internet advanced, etc. for teaching a class and i've 
> come across this term, but would someone define it for me and give me 
> some examples.  I've heard it being used in various places but yet to 
> see a really good definition, etc.  thanks in advance.  cori
> Cori Caputo
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