Meta-Search Engines

Parallel Internet query engines which you can use to submit your questions to several search engines at one time.

Web 2.0 Search Sites

Surchur: Suchur searches blogs, the social web, pictures, videos, and news. On the first page, it has a list of what searches are currently hot.
Feed Mill: Feed Mill searches blogs, Twitter, podcasts, and social media sites.
Keotag: A metasearch site for blogs, social bookmarking sites, and community news sites . This site uses Technorati, Google Blog Search, Blogdigger, Blogpulse, and several other sites.
MrSapo: MrSapo searches Google, Yahoo, Bing, Twitter, Facebook, and other sites. It also has a one page directory of significant web sites.

Traditional Web Search Sites

Search.Com: Search.Com provides general metasearching using search engines and directories. The box on the right side of the page will give you good ideas for narrowing or expanding your search. Options for specifying sites and other modifications to the search results will be found in the options and preferences links on the first page of the results lists. From C|Net.
Clusty: Clusty uses Ask, Open Directory, Gigablast, and "others". Results are combined, and also organized into folders by topic or by source search engine on the left side of the screen.
Fundoo Web: Search the web with Yahoo!, search for pictures with Flickr and for news with Yahoo! news. This site also seaches Amazon, and Yahoo Maps. The results from searching all of these sites is presented on the first page of the results.
OnmiMedicalSearch.Com: This is an efficient metasearch engine for medical information, medical news and images.
SurfWax: SurfWax offers many interesting features. If you click on the snap button, you get a preview of the page along with focus words on that web page which may be used for further searching. SurfWax results may be presented by relevance, source, or alphabetically. The focus option helps to find other search terms to use.
Mamma : The Mother of All Search Engines: Mamma searches quickly and brings back relevant results and a lot of ads.
Ixquick Metasearch: Sites in the results list are given star ratings according to the their placement. A nice feature is the capability of searching in languages other than English.
Whonu: This search site offers so many features that it is advisible to watch the introductory video to find out how to use it. You may search for a great many types of web content, and use a very extensive number of web sources.
WebCrawler: You may not specify which search engines and directories to use, and you do not know which have been used. This is owned by InfoSpace.
MetaCrawler: View results by relevance or by source. Search for web sites, images, news, multimedia and shopping. Owned by InfoSpace. There are more options for advanced searching than are offered by Dogpile which is another InfoSpace engine.
Dogpile: Search results are returned speedily and may be viewed by relevance or by source. Results are also grouped into categories on the right side of the screen. The advanced search option has a lot of nice features for narrowing searches. Search for web pages, images, multimedia, news and shopping. Owned by InfoSpace.

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