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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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Others are Meta search engines like metacrawler and MSN search that fetch results from other search engines.

Undergraduates' Preference between Web Search engines and Reference Sources for Research Activities in Two Universities in South West Nigeria

One of her many projects was helping to develop the first metacrawler search engine for navigating the web (before there was Google).

Adele Howe

MetaCrawler and Dogpile are the examples of Meta search engines.

Getting Bulk Data Through Google: An empirical study

The population was including five engine search; Ask, Bing, Google, Lycos, Yahoo and four meta search engines of Excite, Dogpile, Mamma and Metacrawler. 30 keywords were selected by medical experts and were searched in these engines and meta search engine.

A COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF THE RECALL AND PRECISION OF SEARCH ENGINES AND META SEARCH ENGINES IN MEDICAL IMAGES RETRIVAL

It is a metasearch engine or metacrawler, which means it searches using several search engines for more complete coverage, which is discussed later in this article.

Resources for real estate analysts and valuers: internet search engines

In addition to single source WSE's, such as Google and Bing, there are also metasearch WSE's, such as Dogpile or Metacrawler, which combine search results from several WSE's (Jansen et al., 2007).

Changes in users' Web search performance after ten years

Combining the results from multiple search engines can greatly improve the coverage, as was done with meta search engine such as MetaCrawler (www.metacrawler.com).

Competition in search engine market

MetaCrawler integration search engine.Library Works and Studies 2002 (3) 46~47

A multi-agent architecture based on personalized demand of users for information retrieval on the internet

It also competes with Infospace s Dogpile, WebCrawler and MetaCrawler in metasearch, or returning results from multiple search engines.