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Top Choices
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Flipper
http://www.flipper.com/
Flipper is a meta search engine that not only displays results from 
other
search engines and from the Open Directory, but from sites that are 
part of
the invisible web, as well. Most of these deep web sites are 
commercially
oriented, but there are also useful information sites for things like 
music
and films.

iBoogie
http://www.iboogie.tv/
iBoogie allows you to select results from the web, products or services 
from
the "BuyWeb," or limit your queries to the deep web, images, video or 
audio.
It also performs real-time clustering of results, creating a list of
categories related to your search terms for easy browsing.

InfoGrid
http://www.infogrid.com
In a compact format, InfoGrid provides direct links to major search 
sites
and topical web sites in different categories. Meta search and news
searching is also offered.

Infonetware RealTerm Search
http://www.infonetware.com
This site is primarily designed to demonstrate classification 
technology
from Infogistics. It's a meta search engine, and it does topical
classification of results. However, it is unique in that you can select
several different topics, then "drill down" to see results from all of 
them,
rather than being restricted to the results from only one topic.

Ithaki
http://www.ithaki.net/indexu.htm
Ithaki is probably the most "global" of all meta search engines, 
available
in 14 languages and offering more than 35 different categories for 
limiting
your search. In addition, Ithaki offers country specific search, 
querying
only local search engines rather than the regional versions of the 
major
search engines.

IxQuick
http://www.ixquick.com/
Meta search engine that ranks results based on the number of "top 10"
rankings a site receives from the various search engines.

Kartoo
http://www.kartoo.com
If you like the idea of seeing your web results visually, this meta 
search
site shows the results with sites being interconnected by keywords. It 
also
presents a thematic map that shows the most important sites and the 
linkage
relationships among the various results.

ProFusion
http://www.profusion.com
Brings back listings from several major search engines as well as 
"Invisible
Web" resources. Formerly based at the University of Kansas, the site 
was
purchased by search company Intelliseek in April 2000.

qbSearch
http://www.qbsearch.com
Want to get multiple pages of results from a search engine combined 
into one
single page? QB-Search will quickly join up to 200 pages of listings 
from
major search engines.

Query Server
http://www.queryserver.com/web.htm
Search against major web-wide search engines, as well as major news, 
health,
money and government search services.

SearchOnline
http://www.searchonline.info/
SearchOnline is a relatively new service, but one that offers a highly
flexible and customizable interface to a wide variety of information
sources, ranging from general web results to specialized search 
resources in
a number of subject specific categories.

SurfWax
http://www.surfwax.com
Searches against major engines or provides those who open free accounts 
the
ability to chose from a list of hundreds. Using the "SiteSnaps" 
feature, you
can preview any page in the results and see where your terms appear in 
the
document. Allows results or documents to be saved for future use. See 
also:

Hang Ten with SurfWax Metasearch
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/01/sd0710-surfwax1.html
SurfWax is a metasearch engine with some powerful advanced features,
including the ability to build your own customized gateways into the
Invisible web.

Power Searching with SurfWax
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/01/sd0711-surfwax2.html
We continue our look under the hood of SurfWax, a metasearch engine 
that
offers some unique advanced features to registered users.

Vivisimo
http://vivisimo.com/
Enter a search term, and Vivismo will not only pull back matching 
responses
from major search engines but also automatically organize the pages 
into
categories. Slick and easy to use.

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Popular Choices
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Many of the meta search engines below are popular with users, but they
aren't listed as top choices by Search Engine Watch. This is because 
they
typically mix paid listings within editorial results, without any type 
of
disclaimers. The article "Meta Search Or Meta Ads?" by Danny Sullivan 
covers
this issue more. It also explains how you can control the ads you see 
and
turn the metacrawlers listed into better resources, by making use of
customization options.

Meta Search Or Meta Ads?
http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/01/05-metasearch.html
A review of meta search services by Search Engine Watch shows that some 
are
providing results where more than half of their listings are paid 
links. A
guide to what's paid, what's not and how to get the most from your meta
search service.

Dogpile
http://www.dogpile.com
Popular metasearch site that sends a search to a customizable list of 
search
engines, directories and specialty search sites, then displays results 
from
each search engine individually. Owned by InfoSpace, which also owns
MetaCrawler.

Excite
http://www.excite.com
Formerly a crawler based search engine with its own index, it was
transformed into a meta search engine when purchased by InfoSpace in 
2001.

MetaCrawler
http://www.metacrawler.com
One of the oldest meta search services, MetaCrawler began in July 1995 
at
the University of Washington. MetaCrawler was purchased by InfoSpace, 
an
online content provider, in Feb. 97.

Webcrawler
http://www.excite.com
Formerly a crawler based search engine using a much smaller subset of 
the
Excite index, it was transformed into a meta search engine when 
purchased by
InfoSpace in 2001.

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The Big Four Meta Search Engines
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0917-infospace.html
Though there are dozens of useful meta search engines, InfoSpace is the
industry gorilla, operating the four arguably best known and most 
heavily
used properties.

Mamma
http://www.mamma.com
Mamma is an unusual meta search engine in that it only searches a few 
major
indexes -- the rest of the sites queried are directories or 
paid-placement
services.

Search.com
http://www.search.com
Search.com is a meta search engine operated by CNET. It offers both 
web-wide
search and a wide variety of specialty search options. Search.com uses
technology from SavvySearch, which was acquired by CNET in October 
1999. The
SavvySearch site itself no longer operates. SavvySearch was one of the 
older
metasearch services, around since May 1995 and formerly based at 
Colorado
State University.

All-In-One Search Pages
http://searchenginewatch.com/links/allinone.html
Unlike metacrawlers, all-in-one search pages do not send your query to 
many
search engines at the same time. Instead, they generally list a 
wide-variety
of search engines and allow you to search at your choice without having 
to
go directly to that search engine. See All-In-One Search Pages for a 
list of
these type of resources.

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About the Author:

Chris Sherman is the Associate Editor of SearchEngineWatch.com, and a
frequent contributor to Online Magazine, EContent, Information Today 
and
other information industry journals. He's also written several books,
including The McGraw-Hill CD ROM Handbook and The Invisible Web: 
Uncovering
Information Sources Search Engines Can't See, co-authored with Gary 
Price.

He's been writing about search and search engines since 1994, when he
developed online searching tutorials for several of his clients. From 
1998
to 2001, he was the Web Search Guide for About.com.

When not working on Search Engine Watch he is President of Searchwise
(http://www.searchwise.net/), a Boulder, Colorado based Web 
consultancy.

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