World Wide Web Research Tools

Metacrawlers and Metasearch Engines Unlike search engines, metacrawlers don't crawl the web themselves to build listings. Instead, they allow searches to be sent to several search engines all at once. The results are then blended together onto one page. Jump To: Award Winners - Other Choices - Specialty Choices All-In-One Search - Meta Search Articles Award Winners Dogpile Popular metasearch site owned by InfoSpace that sends a search to a customizable list of search engines, directories and specialty search sites, then displays results from each search engine individually. Vivisimo Enter a search term, and Vivismo will not only pull back matching responses from major search engines but also automatically organize the pages into categories. Kartoo If you like the idea of seeing your web results visually, this meta search site shows the results with sites being interconnected by keywords. Other Top Choices See something you like? Specialty Choices

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