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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.
One of her many projects was helping to develop the first metacrawler search engine for navigating the web (before there was Google).
MetaCrawler and Dogpile are the examples of Meta search engines.
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.
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.
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).
MetaCrawler integration search engine.Library Works and Studies 2002 (3) 46~47
It also competes with Infospace s Dogpile, WebCrawler and MetaCrawler in metasearch, or returning results from multiple search engines.
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