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If one search engine is good, lots of search engines are better, right? These
tools search a combination of search engines in one go. |
DogPile
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DogPile is a web page that will automatically
end your quire to many search engines, and return a compilation of the results. It will
attempt to adjust your query to match the requirements of the search engines, but this is
not always successful. Your query is sent to DogPile, which then sends it of to a
selection of search engines. It must wait for these to reply before it can send the
results to you. You can select the time it waits for a response in a pop-up menu. The
first set of results will be the three or four search engines that responded first. There
is an option at the end of the results page to send your query to more search engines. |
MetaCrawler
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Metacrawler functions in much the same way as Dog Pile. It uses AltaVista,
Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, Thunderstone, Webcrawler and Yahoo! its
well-designed, low bandwidth pages make it very fast. Sites are also rated out of 1000 as
to how closely they match your query. In addition, it makes use of +, -
and " " to allow you to refine your key words. |
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