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Metasearch Engines Ixquick is an example of a metasearch engine. |
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 Reproduced with permission from Ixquick. |
Metasearch engines search the databases of several search engines at a time (e.g., HotBot, Excite, and Yahoo). Most eliminate duplicate listings. Usually, you have little control over search options. |
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Other metasearch engines: Copernic.com, ProFusion.com, SurfWax.com, Vivisimo.com, and MetaCrawler.com |
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Best
for an overview of your topic on the Web, seeing which search engines
will produce the best results, and for simple searches.
Downside, they aren't thorough. Most metasearch engines omit
Google, which is a highly-rated search engine.
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Original (c) UNBLILT material 2003-2004 by the University of New Brunswick Libraries, Instruction Services Group. UNBLILT incorporates material from Searchpath, a tutorial developed by Western Michigan University 2001-2002, and from TILT, a tutorial developed by the Digital Information Literacy Office for the University of Texas System Digital Library 1998-2002. This material may be reproduced, distributed, or incorporated only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the UNBLILT, Searchpath, and TILT Open Publication Licenses.