Metasearch Engines

What is a Meta Search engine?

This is a search engine that searches other search engines. They do not own their own webpages but access others for information.

When should you use a metasearch engine?

Use these search engines when you want to explore broadly. It is useful when just beginning a research topic. When you have information from this broad base then it is better to select individual search engines for your research.

What is the Deep Web? Invisible web?

Simply said it is information that cannot be seen or found by traditional search engines. The pages do not exist until a specific query is made. Someone said it is like casting a net in the ocean and you will catch a whole lot of fish but there are still those that are deep in the ocean that cannot be found on that initial catch.

METASEARCH ENGINES

http://www.dogpile.com/

Aggregates all the relevant searches from Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask. The overlap is less than one percent. It filters results by language, date, or domain.

http://www.ixquick.com/
This Search Engine can search in 18 different languages including Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. There are 18 million hours of Video content. It has an exclude previous results feature.

http://clusty.com/
Groups search in to topics or “clusters”. Check out the Clusty Labs. It searches several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking. This approach raises the best results to the top.

http://www.mamma.com/
Searches Bing and Ask. This is probably the most established search engine on the web that simultaneously searches a variety of engines, directories, and deep content sites.

http://www.surfwax.com/index.html
Choose the number of results, Sorty by Relevance, Alpha or Source and you can ask for Summaries. It can mix with educational, US Government Tools and news sources or many other categories

http://www.kartoo.com/
Organise topics by mapping. It is known as a visual meta search engine with visual display images.

http://www.pandia.com/
This acts as a directory/search engine all in one. It has great tutorials and Tools of the trade.

http://www.multimeta.com/indexd.html
GERMAN METASEARCHENGINE. I leave it to you to judge.

http://www.metacrawler.com/
Searches About.com, AltaVista, DirectHit, Excite, Google, GoTo.com,
Infoseek, Looksmart, Lycos, RealNames, Thunderstone and WebCrawler at once. It combines commercial and non-commercial top ranked results from each engine searched and it is designed to identify the intent of the user’s search and results are generally listed in order of relevance..

http://www.findspot.com/

This meta search engine runs your request through 10 major search engines.

http://search.infospace.com/ispace/ws/index
Searches all the top search engines such as Yahoo, Google, Bing and Ask as well as other search engines. By using one search engine you can miss up to 75 percent of the web’s content that you may need.

SPECIAL SEARCH ENGINES

http://www.njouba.com/
This is linked with an E book search engine and is an indexing search engine.

http://www.ebook-search-engine.com/

An fantastic site for teachers for units of study. Check out Jane Eyre This is strictly an ebook search engine.

http://sortfix.com/
A great search engine for key word searching. Check out the tutorials.
By scanning and examining the results, it reveals the significant keywords and terms that will help you to define a better question.
Then comes the best part, by using SortFix's unique interface you can play with the suggested keywords, and create your own individual and precise query, and when you ask a precise question you usually get the right answer.

http://www.zuula.com/

This is great because it searches about 8 different search engines and you can use this site to search each one separately. Zuula provides the results from your favorite search engine unaltered, so you can check those first and then get results from other search engines simply by clicking on their tabs. If you want to switch back and forth between search engines, Zuula remembers where you were. And Zuula keeps sponsored links (which are paid advertisements) clearly separated from the regular search results.

http://www.intute.ac.uk/
Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. This site was created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialist select and evaluate the websites in their database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The tutorials have improved and are worth the effort.

http://infomine.ucr.edu/
INFOMINE is a unique Web resource featuring well -organised access to important university level research and educational tools on the Internet. A virtual library, INFOMINE is notable for its collection of annotated and indexed links. Information in INFOMINE is easy to find given the multiplicity of access points provided.
INFOMINE contains over 100,000 links (26,000 librarian created links and 75,000 plus robot/crawler created links) Substantive databases, electronic journals, guides to the Internet for most disciplines, textbooks and conference proceedings are among the many types of resources included. The life sciences INFOMINE alone, for example, provides interactive access to several hundred databases. Separate virtual collections or INFOMINES exist in most major areas of university level research and educational interests. Good for finding the invisible web.

http://www.cuil.com

Cuil clusters the results of each Web search performed on the service into groups of related Web pages. It sorts these by categories and offers various organizing features to help identify topics and allow the user to quickly refine searches. Cuil has indexed over 120 billion Web pages, three times more than what they say Google now indexes.

INVISIBLE WEB

http://aip.completeplanet.com/index.jsp
You are looking at the front door to hundreds of thousands of databases that contain Deep Web content. Using regular search engines and meta crawlers only scratches the surface. It is the policy of this Directory to exclude all pornography. It is said that if you are searching with regular search engines you are getting only 1 in 3000 of the pages available to you for your topic. Isn’t that scary?

http://findarticles.com/
This could be called the Business Directory. This would be beneficial to those in economics or business studies.

http://www.incywincy.com/
This is a search engine that searches the invisible web. Over 200 million pages are indexed, and hundreds of thousands of search engines indexed and searchable. Check out the about IncyWincy to get the low down on what it can do for you.

http://www.iage.com/invisible.html
This is an invisible web directory and resource. It will direct you to invisible web search tools, general reference tools, people, travel, education, government business and legal ….just to name a few. This one is well worth a visit.

http://www.deeppeep.org/

Helps you discover the entry points to content in Deep Web (aka Hidden Web) sites, including online databases and Web services.

Reference Resources