MetaCrawler
MetaCrawler This was one of the earliest
METASEARCH ENGINES. It still appears in the top six of surveys of metasearch engines. It provides the ability for users to select the search engines to be used for any particular search.
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Superior software: metasearch engines.
Magazine article from: Business Economics; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...www.nabe.com. SUPERIOR SOFTWARE: METASEARCH ENGINES In the first WoW column, I described...very time consuming. A solution: use metasearch engines or metacrawlers. Metasearch engines are more comprehensive: they send...
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SavvySearch: a metasearch engine that learns which search engines to query.
Magazine article from: AI Magazine; 6/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...to query several search engines; metasearch engines automate this process by simultaneously...multiple search engines. The simplest metasearch engines are forms that allow the user to...unavailable and irrelevant links. Metasearch engines reduce the burden on the user. They...
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Specialized Search Engines.
Magazine article from: Designfax; 8/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Useful Alternatives for Design Engineers Many moons ago we visited search engines and metasearch engines. We then explored Virtual Libraries in an effort to collect and centralize resources for specific disciplines. As search and directory...
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Internet power searching: finding pearls in a zillion grains of sand.
Magazine article from: Information Outlook; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...few examples of categories of information not readily found online in the past. As the Internet erupted, search engines, metasearch engines, and intelligent agents with value-added features came on the Scene and gradually began to refine their offerings, turning...
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Caught in the surf.(copernic.com)(Brief article)
Newspaper article from: CARING Newsletter; 9/22/2001; ; 180 words
; ...searches without spending too much wasted time. It can find items quickly that you couldn't seem to find on other reliable metasearch engines. It accesses 80 search engines and can filter out unwanted sites and save your search results for you to go back to at...
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The digital library edge: for research, virtual beats brick and mortar.
Magazine article from: Information Outlook; 8/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...archives that do not respond well to search by keyword. [FIGURE 2 OMITTED] Result display formats that work on Web search and metasearch engines are viable in a DL environment. For example, a DL might present search results like Google.com, which ranks results in...
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Going beyond Google: there's a treasure trove of valuable research online--if you know how to find it.(Internet Technology)
Magazine article from: University Business; 8/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...that search engines produce differing returns for the same search criteria and control syntax Led to the development of metasearch engines, which submit queries to multiple engines and aggregate the results. The concept is simple: More searches produce more...
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metasearch engine
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Internet
...of engines and display the combined results. Three of the most famous meta searchengines are SAVVYSEARCH , DOGPILE , and METACRAWLER . Many of these search engines now allow the option of nominating which combination of search engine to use for a particular...
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search engine
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Internet
...BANNER ADVERT ising that was the main source of revenue of the search engine companies. Current metasearch engines include METACRAWLER and SAVVYSEARCH . The partial indexing of the Internet has also given rise to large numbers of SPECIALIZED SEARCH ENGINES...
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