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Metasearch

These sites do not crawl the web themselves to build an index. Instead they allow searches to be sent to several search engines all at once. The results are then unified. They may either present results from each engine one after the other (parallel search), or blend them, removing duplicates.

Sites in Metasearch

JS Search
Offers a meta search of the Web, auctions or music, using a set of popular engines.

Gimenei
Queries five sources and uses its own algorithm to filter and rank results. Options include browsing a modified directory from the Open Directory, search by phrase or words, and request timeout.

ProFusion
Customizable service that uses the fastest search engines by default or lets you select from a list. Includes vertical search groups for a number of topics.

Kartoo
Displays results in chart or classic list form. Options include different language interfaces and basic or expert version.

Gnome
Queries multiple search engines simultaneously with the same or different words. Options include serving results separately, interleaved or combined in alphabetical order.

Karnak
Compiles information from multiple sources, weeds out dead and questionable links, stores findings in a personal library, and provides a summarized report. Registration is required. Free for a trial period.

Widow Metasearch
Provides search by words or phrase and directory taken from the Open Directory. Includes straightforward interface that makes it easy to select search engines.

Searches
Options include choice between top and all engines, sorting by relevance, source, or title.

Fazzle
Multifeatured metasearcher with English, French and Dutch interfaces. Options include search by phrase, title or Boolean queries, and a choice of engines. Free registration gives access to additional functions.

iBoogie
Clustering service with directory using ODP, that supports multiple languages and deep (invisible) web search.

Metabear
Offers metasearch of the world or the Russian Web, FTP, and multi-media.

Vivísimo
Groups the results by topic via document clustering technology. Options include Web or news search, selection of sources, language restriction, and filtering.

Query Server
Queries a customizable set of search engines and returns a single merged, ranked and conceptually clustered list. Also offers metasearch of news, health, money and United States government sites.

Ixquick
Searches the web, MP3s, pictures and news archives via regular, Boolean and natural language. Finds sites rated best by multiple engines for your query.

Search.com
Customizable metasearch of the whole web, or a large range of topics.

Searchy
Queries major search engines and serves the results in a sequence of 10 per source in the default setting. Advanced options include combined results and choice of engine.

KillerInfo
Search tool with a side bar that categorizes subjects within the results. Provides choice of channels including news, reference and business.

Wondir
This nonprofit service combines results with answers from volunteer experts, includes news groups, articles, and people to ask.

Zworks
Searches several popular search engines simultaneously or individually. Results are collated and ranked for relevancy with redundancies removed, includes filtered, Boolean and advanced options.

Ipile
Searches over dozen search engines, auctions, jobs, MP3, the bible, forums, news, and stock quotes.

Geoswitch
Provides a metasearch with geolocation. Queries major engines, merges the results, and serves them with country flags showing the origins of each website.

Sitehunting
Offers customizable search combining and ranking results from major search engines with highlighted terms and links to site information from Alexa.

Ithaki Metasearch
Employs an intelligent technology to find relevant search results from hundreds of search engines and directories. Allows advanced search commands. Several languages and country-specific searches.

Search66
Metasearches the whole Web or restricts search between some countries. Duplicate results are eliminated and these from the same domain clustered.

SurfWax
Meta-search engine that provides real-time page summaries - 'site snaps'. Those who open free accounts can select from a list of hundreds of search sources, and save and share what they find.

MyProwler
Customizable meta-search with clustered results. Provides deep or fast search of the whole Web. Selection also includes downloads, auctions, kids sites, recipes or United States government. In each case, there is a choice of sources used.

IcySpicy
Fetches results from several search engines sorted by relevance, source or title. Options include query by phrase, family filter, and hide summaries.

Infonetware
A demonstration of RealTerm technology applied to Internet search. It submits your query to various search engines and then sorts the combined results into topics.

Mooter
Clusters search results. It presents a diagram of themes within the results, from which the user can select one or all results. Options to search Australian sites only or the full Web.

Qksearch
Provides web, images, mp3, jobs, and news search in 6 different languages.

Turbo 10
Metasearch engine, offering results from user chosen groups of search engines.

MetaEureka
Search multiple engines and ODP directory.

Ubbo
Search tool with a simple interface and no advertising.

Onimeta
Creates a combined index from major search engines and directories. Each result comes with an option to find similar sites.

WindSeek
Metasearch engine with with a simple interface. Results show ranking from each source.

MetaStrike
Allows single interface to search multiple search engines with duplicates filtered out. Results list search engine sources.

Coarc
Search ten search engines at once with a single interface. Results show source and positioning.

Jackfruit
Metasearch engine which delivers search results from multiple sources. Results have direct links to source.

Babieca Metasearch
Provides meta search facility and includes a complete ODP directory powered by phpODP.

Academic Index
Provides access to academic reference and research sites recommended by teachers and librarians. Select from web pages, periodicals, United States history, or science and technology.

Clusty
This search tool from Vivismo offers clustered results for a selection of searches. Metasearch the whole web, or use tabs to search for news, gossip, images, or products via Bizrate or eBay. Options to search Wikipedia, blogs and Slashdot.

Jux2
Combines the search results of Google, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves, highlighting the overlap and differences between them.