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Metasearch Engines Clusty is an example of a metasearch engine. |
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Metasearch engines search the databases of several search engines at a time (e.g., Looksmart, Gigablast, Lycos, etc). Most eliminate duplicate listings. Usually, you have little control over search options. |
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Other metasearch engines: Dogpile, MetaCrawler, and Search. |
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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.
Sometimes metasearch engines won't be very thorough and don't always
include major search engines (like Google).  |
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