Metasearch
A Meta Search engine allows you to search multiple search engines at once, returning more comprehensive and relevant results, fast.
A meta-search, multi-threaded or multi-search engine searches other search engines' databases in parallel (at the same time) and collates the results (which usually consist of a predetermined maximum "number" such as 10, 20 or 30). The search engine does not maintain its own database.
Major differences in the meta-search engines include:
- Selection of databases searches
- Submission of queries to the search engines
- Manipulation and presentation of results
- Response time
Meta Search improves the Search Quality in many ways:
- Comprehensive
- Efficient
- One query queries all
Is a search engine that queries other search engines and then combines the all the results received . In effect, the user is not using just one search engine, but a combination of many search engines at once, to optimize Web searching.
Meta Search engines pick up ads as part of search results from the participating search engines.
Why would you use MetaSearch?
It allows you to discover high quality online resources in a quick and efficient way.
It allows you to search several selected online resources simultaneously.
It allows you to build your own list of resources, save and store references and searches and set up search alerts.
