Search Sites: Meta Search Engines

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Meta Search Engines (a.k.a. Mega Search Engines)

See also: Major Search Engines; A-Z Internet Search Engines; Meta Search Engines; Pay-Per-Click Search Engines

	Fazzle - Impressive. Meta search interface allows complete customization and personalization. Searches AltaVista, Lycos, MSN, Netscape, Teoma, Wisenut, and Yahoo!. Also search by: downloads, images, video, audio, shopping, dictionary, thesaurus, and more.
	Kartoo - Impressive. Searches AltaVista, HotBot, Overture (pay-per-click), and La Toile du Quebec. Results are displayed on a map showing interrelationships between the results. Kartoo offers a free toolbar so you can search from your browser, as well as a version you can put on your website.
	Qksearch - Impressive. Searches AllTheWeb, AltaVista, Google, HotBot, LookSmart, Lycos, MSN, Teoma, WiseNut, and Yahoo. Offers a completely customizable interface and very fast searching.
	AnswerBus - Answers questions entered in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Portuguese by querrying Google, Yahoo!, WiseNut, AltaVista, and Yahoo! News. From the web search results pages, AnswerBus extracts sentences that are determined to contain answers. AnswerBus features a text interface for voice output as well as an XML interface for AI system developers.
	Bytedog - Searches 7Search (pay-per-click), AllTheWeb, AltaVista, The Open Directory, and Wisenut, and merges the results into a master list. The results are ranked based on their rankings in the original search engines, the words in the titles, descriptions, and URLs. The results are filtered, removing discussion forums, spam sites, or sites that contain material sensitive to minors, unless the search clearly indicates that adult material is being sought.
	DogPile - Searches About.com, AltaVista, Ask Jeeves, FindWhat (pay-per-click), Google, LookSmart, Overture (pay-per-click), Teoma, and Yahoo!, and offers a free browser toolbar enabling you to search from DogPile right from your browser. Also includes yellow pages and white pages meta search. DogPile Analysis.
	Geoswitch - Searches AllTheWeb, The Open Directory, and Wisenut.
	Gimenei Metasearch - Features meta search and a modified copy of The Open Directory. The top results for many searches are pay-per-click listings provided through affiliate relationships between Gimenei and SearchFeed.com, SearchHipppo, Kanoodle, and Amazon.com.
	Globito - Searches Google, Lycos, MSN, The Open Directory, Wisenut, and Yahoo!. The results are listed with the engines from which they were gleaned accompanied by their rankings on those engines. The results page features a Quick View link which will open up a snapshot of the site for previewing before visiting the site.
	IBoogie - Searches FindWhat (pay-per-click), MSN, Teoma, and Wisenut, and includes a version of The Open Directory. Features web, images, video, and audio search, as well as a clustering or related keywords search function which suggests alternative searches based on the user's keywords.
	IcySpicy - Searches FindWhat (pay-per-click), GoClick (pay-per-click), MSN, Overture (pay-per-click), SearchFeed (pay-per-click), Wisenut, and Yahoo!, and gives prominence in the results to pay-per-click listings provided through affiliate relationships with the pay-per-click engines.
	Infonetware - Features meta web search and news search. Searches AltaVista, BBCi, Lycos, MSN, and Yahoo.
	InfoSpace - Yellow pages and white pages meta search.
	Ithaki - Offers meta search in many languages, culling results from local search engines and directories around the world. Available in a version for kids.
	I-une - Searches AllTheWeb, AltaVista, Google, Inktomi, Teoma, WiseNut, and Yahoo!, and provides a modified version of The Open Directory. The results are listed with the engines from which they were gleaned, and feature a Preview link which will open up a snapshot of the site for previewing before visiting the site.
	Ixquick - Searches Ask Jeeves/Teoma, FindWhat (pay-per-click), Gigablast, Go.com, Kanoodle (pay-per-click), LookSmart, MSN, Netscape, The Open Directory, Overture (pay-per-click), and Wisenut. The results are listed with the engines from which they were gleaned accompanied by their rankings on those engines.
	JS Search - Searches AllTheWeb, Google, MSN, Wisenut, and Yahoo!. Also features auction and music search. The results are listed with the engines from which they were gleaned.
	Killerinfo - Searches AllTheWeb, AOL Search, Google, MSN, Teoma, and Wisenut. The results are listed with the engines from which they were gleaned accompanied by their rankings on those engines, and feature a Quick Peek link which will open up a snapshot of the site for previewing before visiting the site.
	Mamma - Searches About.com, Business.com, Google, LookSmart, Lycos, MSN, The Open Directory, Teoma, and the "Mamma Collection" of paid submissions, and adds in sponsored listings. The results are listed with the engines from which they were gleaned.
	Multimeta - Searches Ah-ha (pay-per-click), AltaVista, Entireweb, Excite, HotBot, Lycos, MSN, Voila.com, and Yahoo!. Offers a free toolbar which enables you to search from your browser as well as a free version for webmasters.
	ProFusion - Searches AltaVista, About.com, AOL Search, Lycos, Metacrawler, MSN, Netscape, Overture (pay-per-click), Raging Search, Teoma, and Wisenut. Results vary depending on the responsiveness of the individual search engine querried, and are listed with the engines from which they were gleaned accompanied by their rankings on those engines.
	Search66 - Crammed full of ads. Searches AltaVista, AOL Search, The Open Directory, Espotting (pay-per-click), LookSmart, Lycos, Mamma, Netscape, SearchBoss (pay-per-click), and Yahoo!.
	Search.com - Searches About.com, Britannica.com, Google, LookSmart, mySimon, The Open Directory, Scrub The Web, SearchHippo, Thunderstone, Wisenut, wotbox, and Yahoo!. Also includes sponsored listings from Google, Ask Jeeves, Business.com, CNET Shopper, Download.com, FindWhat, Kanoodle, LookSmart, and Sprinks. Customizable.
	Searches.com - By default, Searches.com searches About.com, AllTheWeb, Google, MSN, The Open Directory, WiseNut, and Yahoo!. Optional engines include Ah-Ha (pay-per-click), ePilot, Kanoodle (pay-per-click), AOL Search, Overture (pay-per-click), FindWhat (pay-per-click), EntireWeb, and GoClick (pay-per-click).
	Searchy.com - Searches About.com, Ah-ha, AltaVista, AOL Search, Ask Jeeves, FindWhat.com, Google, Lycos, MSN, The Open Directory, Sprinks, Teoma, and Yahoo. Offers a free Searchy.com search box for your website, and enables advanced searching.
	SiteHunting.com - Searches About.com, Ah-ha, AllTheWeb, AOL Search, EntireWeb, FindWhat, GoClick, Google, Kanoodle, MSN, The Open Directory, Overture, Teoma, WiseNut, and Yahoo!, and can be customized to specific engines.
	Vivisimo - By default, Vivisimo searches BBCi, GigaBlast, LookSmart, Lycos, MSN, Netscape, and Overture, but through advanced search, you can specify several other sources, including CNN, NYTimes, USAToday, Reuters, CBC, WashingtonPost, BBCNews, YahooNews, UnionTribune, PBS, FirstGov, Business.com, eBay, Britannica, Delphion, or PubMed.
	Widow Metasearch - Searches Google, MSN, and Yahoo.
	Wondir - MetaSearch and interactive Q&A/Chat Forum. Real language questions posted to the search engine scroll across the home page and can be answered by anyone who registers as a user. Often silly, but a very interesting concept.