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metasearch engine
The search engine software that is used to search other search engines. See metasearch site.


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Meng, however, said: "The big difference between our technology and the ones pursued by other people is that most of the other technologies do the metasearching on top of a small number of general-purpose search engines, such as Yahoo, Google or MSN.
Including a new essay on the importance of standards-based rights metadata to the activities of cultural institutions and a section on practical principles for metadata creation and maintenance articles cover the basics of metadata and its uses, metadata and its relation to the web, the application of crosswalks and metadata harvesting, federated searching and metasearching, and techniques to use to connect users and information through metadata.
MetaCrawler and Dogpile are the Internet's two largest metasearch services, with more than 65 percent of all metasearching activity on the Internet taking place on the two Go2Net sites.
 
 
 
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