A metasearch engine (or search aggregator) is an online information retrieval tool that uses the data of a web search engine to produce its own results. Metasearch engines … See more

By sending multiple queries to several other search engines this extends the coverage data of the topic and allows more information to be found. They use the indexes built by … See more

A metasearch engine accepts a single search request from the user. This search request is then passed on to another search engine's See more

Spamdexing is the deliberate manipulation of search engine indexes. It uses a number of methods to manipulate the relevance or … See more

The first person to incorporate the idea of meta searching was Daniel Dreilinger of Colorado State University. He developed SearchSavvy, which let users search up to 20 different search engines and directories at once. Although fast, the search engine was restricted to … See more

Metasearch engines are not capable of parsing query forms or able to fully translate query syntax. The number of hyperlinks generated by metasearch engines are limited, and therefore do not provide the user with the complete results of a query. See more

• Federated search
• List of metasearch engines
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