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MetaCrawler

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MetaCrawler

A metasearch engine from InfoSpace, Inc., Bellevue, WA (www.infospaceinc.com) that was developed at the University of Washington and released on the Internet in 1995. Its technology was acquired by Go2Net, Inc. in 1997 and by the InfoSpace Network in 2000. Other Internet properties from InfoSpace in the area of online directory search include Dogpile.com, Webcrawler.com and webFetch.com. See Web search engines.



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Dogpile, Metacrawler, and Profusion are examples of metasearches that vary in sophistication from compound submissions to inclusion of specialized ("vertical") search engines, personalized site preferences, and subscription services.
Kalili goes on further to say, "The last piece to the comparison shopping puzzle is to gather the results from all of them and show them on one page as MetaCrawler.
com, Excite, Gigablast, Google, Hotbot, LookSmart, Lycos, Mamma, Metacrawler, Microsoft Live Search, Netscape Search, Open Directory, Search.
 
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