A Brief Discussion On Top Meta Search Engines
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If you are still not aware of what a meta search engine is, let me begin with its definition. Meta search engines are the advanced level search engines that differ from the regular conventional search engines in more than one ways. While a search is made on a meta search engine, it not only displays the pages listed with it, but also searches the results from other search engines, directories and specialty search engines too to offer the most comprehensive result for the search.
The use of meta search engine further helps in saving the search time of the user. There are now many meta search engines available for the web suffers and the popularity of meta search engine in the coming days is only likely to grow. Following are some of the top meta search engines to add to your list.
Dogpile: This meta search engine searches the web search engines, directories and other specialty search engines for the result. It is owned by Infospace, which also the owner of another popular meta search engine, MetaCrawler.
Mama.com: One of the oldest meta search engines, operating since 1996. Mama.com will list the results of the major search engines and therefore it searches quickly. Mama.com also offers the scope to advertisers to place paid advertisement in it.
Surchur: It is a Web 2.0 based meta search engine. It will search the blogs, social websites, news, photos and videos. The home page of Surchur shows the list of the most popular searches.
Search.com: The home page of Search.com looks very much like any other regular search engines. The site also offers you the scope to expand and narrow your search for more relevant results.
Meta crawler: It is one of the first generation meta search engines. It was started in July 1995. Later on it was purchased by Infospace in 1997 and continued to grow as a premier meta search engine.
Webcrawler: Another meta search engine from Infospace.
There are of course many more; such as – Vivisimo, Katroo, and as the demand for more comprehensive search options are growing the future will witness many more developed meta search engines. The popularity of meta search engines have also triggered the debate whether or not they would replace popular search engines like Google and Yahoo in the coming days. Well, we have to wait for the answer but for the time being a meta search engine is great tool to use.
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