Addict-o-matic meta search
for news
13 May 2008
latest news, blog posts, videos & images from major blogging
houses (WordPress, Bloglines, & Twitter) & blog search
engines, video & vlogging sites (YouTube & Truveo), major
folksonomic searching (Digg, Technorati, & Flickr, plus 15
other sites & engines);
Agent 55
21 May 2008
run same search through various search engines in quick
succession; 329 search-engines in 45 categories; Tabs for Blogs,
News, Visual Web etc. help to focus searches; Create your own
metasearch of selected search engines &/or categories;
Age of.com[Find Your Portal!]Basic
Start Page
25 July
2001
Guides, Meta guides, Portals, Directories, Meta Search; Meta Meta
Search
All4One Metasearch
28 April 2005
Allinonenews
1 September 2007
metasearch 1800 news search engines across 200 countries &
territories; keyword search; no way to list results by date;
keyword-based RSS feeds, topic based feeds, or feeds from popular
queries;
AllPlus Universal Meta Search
and Discovery Engine
28 October 2007
results from Google, Yahoo, MSN Live and Ask.com; Web pages,
News, Images, Videos and Blogs, etc are compared, ranked &
presented in an intuitive and organized way, similar to Kosmix’s topic overview pages;
integrated Natural Language Processing algorithms for query
analysis & refinement, search strategy, relevancy ranking,
focused drill-down & exploration of multi-dimensional
information spaces; multiple spell checkers based on English,
Medical and Scientific Dictionaries; dynamically generates Topic
Clusters and visualizes search results in form of Cluster Graphs;
built on the PolyMeta
meta search engine;
AllSearchEngines
focuses on UK Search Engines
29 March 2002
6 UK-focused search engines - Overture UK, Yahoo UK, Mirago
UK,AltaVista UK & MSN UK; & search for MP3s(3 UK sources)
& images(2 UK sources.)
Big
Four Meta Search Engines (SearchDay, September 17, 2002. No.357)
3
October 2002
Dogpile & Metacrawler are 2 best known InfoSpace meta search
engines; InfoSpace purchased Excite & Webcrawler properties
when Excite failed
BlowSearch
1
February 2005
BlowSearch Secured Messenger users aggregate into its interface
buddy lists from 4 main public IM services: America Online's AIM
& ICQ, Yahoo's Yahoo Messenger & Microsoft's MSN
Messenger; runs with Microsoft's Windows 95+ & IE; date range
searching;
Booksearch x 3
searches A9, Google Book Search, Windows Live Search
27 January 2007
Carrot2 open source
search-results-clustering engine
14 January 2008
creates groups of most common concepts or terms from results;
default Swiss meta-search engine eTools.ch queries 10 search
engines including Google, Yahoo, Ask & MSN, returns top 20
results from each; tab to limit your search to Google,Yahoo, MSN,
Wikipedia, PubMed; search results limited by default to top 100
results from any search engine but Show Options link to search
& sort up to 400 results (increase from from 20 to 40
resultrss/engine); Show Options to select from 6 sorting
algorithms (only clusters change);
Cleversearch meta-meta search 14 April 2002
Clustering meta-search engines
21
June 2002
Vivisimo search results
grouped. Advanced search; specify search engines wanted, how many
results wanted & language(Dynamic clustering);
English/German versions; now used for Dogpile, MetaCrawler,
WebCrawler & Killerinfo.com & clusters results from
Slashdot; demos forGoogleUncleSam,
UNSearch, FirstGov, NASA (See Clustering
Engine
Demos
-
Government) & open source
projects via Freshmeat & SourceForge.
Query Server -- Web,
News, Health, Money, & Government searches cluster results
Surfwax - Internet Explorer
only; subscription-based & free services; focus words added to
search; generic words, not links to specific people or places
Northern Light
News Search - Search results are divided into different
folders with results in date order
Kartoo visual search
metasearch engine with visual display interfaces uses FlashPlayer
to draw interactive maps
iBoogie MetaSearch Engine
supports multiple languages & deep web(invisible web) search
ez2www.com global metasearch &
directory Search results from global search(not necessarily
advanced search); clusters based on frequently occurring phrases.
Infonetware; .SnakeT(SNippet Aggregation
for Knowledge ExTraction); WebClust;
Those who find topic clustering helpful may prefer to use Vivisimo or KillerInfo for searches of
such specialty engines as PubMed or Find Law.
KillerInfo: Meta Search
with Clustering(6 June 2003) Search Results Guide; Quick
Peek Preview; Search Channels; International Searches
Dogpile has licensed Vivisimo's clustering
technology to group results by category(7 September 2003)
meX flash clustering
metasearch engine with video agent displays results with
interactive maps to distinguish between relevant & irrelevant
documents
AllPlus Natural Language
Processing algorithms for query analysis & refinement, search
strategy, relevancy ranking, focused drill-down & exploration
of multi-dimensional information spaces; multiple spell checkers
based on English, Medical and Scientific Dictionaries;
SnakeT(SNippet
Aggregation for KnowlEdge exTraction) hierarchical
clustering engine organising on-the-fly search results drawn from
16 commodity search engines(Dec 09: now only 2) into a hierarchy
of labeled folders for a complementary view to flat-ranked list of
results returned by current search engines. Users navigate
through the hierarchy driven by their search needs; Technical
assessment; Review;
Clusty.com(Vivisimo)
30 September 2004
search & clustering tools & options(including metasearch
of blogosphere) unavailable from Vivisimo.com site; Clusty's metasearch engine for
weblogs uses Blogdigger, Daypop, Feedster, Technorati,
Blogpulse & IceRocket & clustering results; searching weblogs & RSS feeds;
(18 Mar 2006) new cluster feature Search for more results like these combines
search terms with words used to describe cluster; Clusty.com
launches free site search for Nonprofits, Schools &
Universities(25 March 2006); 4 Sept 09 updated search
engine for multiple NBII
databases powered by Vivisimo;
Cluuz.com: Military
Intelligence-Like Functions for Web Metasearch
13 May 2008
CNET Search.com metasearch
800+ specialized engines
5
September 2001
Coarc Metasearch
15 May 2004
Searching: AlltheWeb, Altavista, HotBot, Lycos, Netscape, Mamma, MSN, ODP, WiseNut, & Yahoo!
Compound
search engines
22 October 2004
Copernic 6.0
18
February 2003
standalone application integrates with Web browser; eliminates
dead links & duplicates; ranks hits; save & edit searches;
Google engine can be added; basic version with ads is free; Personal($29.95)has
1000+ instead of 90+ search engines customized selection; Professional($79.95)
adds ability to analyze search results; Copernic Summarizer($59.95) prepares summaries of
document formats including PDFs; integrates with Office, Intenet
Explorer.
DOE Green Energy
portal (US Department of Energy)
13 May
2010
OSTI
More-Like-This
(MLT) search power aka Term vector similarity
analysis new semantic search tool on Information Bridge
flagship collection of DOE research reports; 2-stage search
process -conventional search, then select an anchor document & MLT
button to re-search entire database for similar documents;
Dogpile. All results, no mess
See Comparison of Various Metasearch engines
9 June 2005
Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, MSN; Dogpile
has licensed Vivisimo's
clustering technology to group results by category &
sponsored listings are now clearly labeled (7 September 2003);
utility visually displays overlap of results from search engines
it queries(3 June 2005); Comparison View
compares results from 3 search engines; Missing Pieces tool
calculates overlap in top-ranked results from Google, Yahoo! &
Ask Jeeves; images search(Yahoo! & Ditto), audio(Yahoo &
Singingfish), video(Yahoo & Singingfish) & News
option(Yahoo, Topix News, Fox News, ABC News); 18 Apr 2012: How
do Dogpile & DuckDuckGo work?;
DoubleTrust
13 June
2005
fetches results from Google & Yahoo, shows common
results(STARS) & where they conflict(ORPHANS) - top sites for
one engine alone; Quick Comparison Toolbar Link for browser
toolbar works for Ask Jeeves & MSN as well
eHealthcareBot.com metasearch engine 9 April 2012
eTools.ch
3 April 2007
Search major Swiss, German & international search engines in
English, French German, Italian, Spanish; apply weightings to
search engines used;
Evaluating
& comparing search features of Web metasearch engines: A
checklist-based approach 2 September 2010
Malaysian
Journal of Library & Information Science, Vol. 15,
no. 2, August 2010: 1-17
ez2www.com global metasearch &
directory
5
October 2002
results from AlltheWeb, Teoma, Google, Yahoo!, AltaVista, Wisenut,
ODP, MSN; links to relevant directory categories from Open
Directory & to more focused search queries; pages found are
given 1 to 5 stars; news, auctions, encyclopedias, forums, images
& MP3 files; translation; advanced search limits to
topic oriented search engines & sites; results from global
search(not advanced search) grouped into clusters based on
frequently occurring phrases.
Fazzle(Opera or
IE)
27 September 2003
e-mail hits option under query box; Reports gives statistics about
search & successful search engines; Defaults to a more focused
set of search engines for higher relevance; preview feature;
formerly known as Search Online.
Federated
Searching(cross-source or
cross-database)
11
December 2003
Velocity dynamic
clustering & meta/federated search tap web, fee-based,
internal databases; includes release of Vivisimo's own crawler; The
end of federated search?; Scitopia.org;
WebFetch: All-in-one search
including Google, Yahoo!, MSN Live Search & Ask.com provides
current 'best of' collection of most clicked on; personalising
options too; Open
Translators (CARE
Affiliates, Index Data &
WebFeat) libraries use federated search interface of their
choice to access 10000+ databases using SRU/SRW/Z39.50 –
Libraries with a Z39.50 client in their OPAC can connect
licensed databases; free databases; catalogues; Z39.50, Telnet
& proprietary databases. Those building/using an open-source
federated search will now be able to expand; WebFeat translators
structure & parse unstructured citations even for databases
that don’t support functionality. Results usage can be tracked in
compliance with COUNTER
standards; Undergraduates
prefer federated searching to searching databases individually,
College &
Research Libraries 68.6 (Nov. 2007): 472-86(Evidence
summary by Genevieve Gore in Evidence Based Library and
Information Practice); Introduction
to Federated Search(FUMSI); fumsi
report: Federated Search Report & Tool Kit; Biznar (Deep Web Technologies);
16 March 2010: LGSearch Google
Custom Search Engine (CSE) set up by Dave Briggs searches all UK
public sector web sites; narrow your search further to Local
Government, Central Government, Health, Police & Fire, LG
Related or Social Media; UNdata;
Flipper.com
23 April 2002
combines search results from Quigo’s Deep Web search engine as
well as other search engines, directories & PPC(pay per click)
engines; features Quigo’s advanced categorization & drill down
capabilities.
FuzzFind Web Search
6 January 2008
combines Google, Yahoo & Live searches with results from
social bookmarking site Del.icio.us.
Gimenei 3 September 2002
Gnosh
30 March 2007
Gravee metasearch engine
personalizes search results based on interests &
preferences
18 October 2010
your bookmarking, tagging, & voting activity & your
friends(if you connect to others on Gravee); import bookmarks from
your browser or Google, Delicious & Stumbleupon; synch your
profile with Facebook, MySpace hi5 or bebo;
Grokker
2.0 zoomable graphical search
interface
18 December 2003
personal data mining tool, with sophisticated information &
text retrieval capabilities; search indexed material, organize
results into spheres of different colors & sizes, some nested;
interface to Amazon.com, user's desktop files & meta-search of
AltaVista, Yahoo!, MSN, FAST, Teoma & WiseNut; (January,
2004)plug-in for Google's index; US$49.95 subscription; free
trial; Aug 2009: Grokker
Status: closed day-to-day operation in March 2009 &
negotiating with possible acquirers & investors;
Harvester42
integrating metasearch engines
26 October
2009
multi search engine covering 50 different resources divided into
16 categories. Results are inframe, so you just scroll down the
page to see the next frame;
HotBot
21 December 2002
revamped & relaunched meta-search engine integrating FAST,
Google, Inktomi, & Teoma; choose 1 of 4 search engines, apply
different skin, set filter preferences (e.g. domain limiting box )
& result preferences; advanced HotBot/Google search offers
date range search options but not cache, PDF
Huckabuck search Yahoo,
Google, & MSN, adjust which used most through sliders
30 April
2006
Human-Search-Engine editors commonly searched termsl; 5 most relevant 3 July 2005
Icerocket offers search by
email
13 August
2004
searches WiseNut, Yahoo, MSN, Teoma, Altavista, Alltheweb, Lycos;
news search uses USA Today, MSNBC, etc; Send to different e-mail
addresses for news, pictures or Web pages - more details
Info.com
16 January 2005
results from 14 search engines & pay-per-click directories,
including Google, AltaVista, Looksmart, Fast, Overture, Inktomi,
Yahoo! & Ask Jeeves
Infonetware RealTerm Search
6 February 2002
designed to demonstrate classification technology from
Infogistics; topical classification of results, like Vivisimo;
select topics, then drill down to see results from all, rather
than being restricted to results from one topic; currently queries
AllTheWeb.com, AltaVista, Google & Yahoo; uses text analysis
results manipulation; Shortlist button for best results;
email results
Infonou
UK metasearch of Altavista, Espotting, Google UK, MSN UK, Yahoo
UK, Mirago 9 September 2004
Infopeople search tools chart search & meta-search engines & subject directories 27 August 2002
InfoSpace
5 November 2002
operates meta-search engines including Dogpile, Excite,
WebCrawler, MetaCrawler, & InfoSpace; includes Google &
FAST which often prevent other meta-search engines from including
their results
Internet
Meta/Parallel Search Engines
28 December 2005
Ixquick Metasearch
(namechange to Start Page, 7
July 2009)
5 September 2001
fast, comprehensive searches, natural language searches, advanced
boolean searches; Translates query into each search engine's
syntax allowing boolean operators(AND, OR, NOT), quoted phrases,
plus, minus, wildcards; Eliminates duplicates & redundant
entries; stars for relevance- 1 for each search engine that places
a result in top10; Pictures MP3; Doesn't query Google(requires
licensing fee); checkmark search result to get more; Power Search
Boolean options; Advanced Search Boolean search with title search,
domain name search, & back links; Power Search Techniques;
Preferences page includes family filter, automatic highlighting,
font size; (15 July 2008) I., first to delete privacy details like
IP-addresses within 48 hours & abolish use of ID cookies, gets
first
European Privacy Seal which guarantees that IT products
& services comply with demanding EU laws & regulations on
privacy & data security; award issued by EuroPriSe
consortium of 9 privacy organisations backed by European
Commission; 29 May 2010: StartPage
launch Australian version; See above - Comparison of
Various Metasearch engines; 26 Oct 2011: Ixquick
encrypts all searches - SSL(secure socket layer) encryption
prevents eavesdropping byISPs;
iZito
7 October 2004
Click on any listing using P icon to park in to do list; P tab
shows pages you've culled; similar search memory features at Ujiko
Joongel
3
January 2009
search collections of 10 sites at once (images, music,videos,
shopping, social, Q&A, health, torrents, gossip);
JSTOR
Launches XML Gateway
1 September 2005
created to better facilitate metasearching/federated
searching/cross-database searching
Jux2
14 October 2004
identify search engine overlap; compare results from Google,
Yahoo, Ask Jeeves; Firefox plugin; 18 June 2006: enhancements -
inclusion of MSN search results & Firefox extension that makes
it possible to search Jux2 directly from browser;
Kartoo visual search
27
May 2002
Case sensitive, natural language & phrase searches; results
map only works in Flash version of site; ordinary HTML version
reverts to text results. Natural language queries can be typed in
search box as long as a question mark <?> is placed at end.
Keotag: Metasearch for Social
Bookmarking Sites
22 April 2007
tag search Technorati, Blinklist, Del.icio.us, Twitter, Google
blog search, Icerocket, Blogdigger, Tailrank, Livesearch, Bluedot,
Newsvine, Blogpulse, Blogdimention, Bloglines, Digg, reddit,
Yahoo, YouTube;
KillerInfo
13 January 2003
Vivisimo clustering technology; larger roster of search services;
Search Options offers a list that includes Google, Teoma,
Altavista & others not at Vivisimo; specialty sources
for news, health, law, science; Quick Peek option without leaving
search results page.
LeapFish proprietary
hyper-threading technology communicates with online portals &
API’s 7 April 2009
searches Google, Yahoo, MSN, Yahoo Answers, Ebay, YouTube, social
media sites & blogs; choose to search Google, Yahoo or MSN
(Windows Live) & search results reflect this choice: web
results, then a box of blog results; other results in
boxes(widgets): news, videos, images, answers, shopping depending
on topic of search; (16 Nov 09) now
a multi-media & real-time search, communication, &
sharing platform; real-time metasearch;
Magellan
Metasearch beta-2
24 September 2004
monitor as many search engines as you want; complex query language
with full Boolean syntax & proximity operators; compatible
with all operating systems.
Meceoo
23 February 2004
data from AltaVista, AllTheWeb & Inktomi; creation
& management of an exclusion list; preselected
site list management
Mednar Deep Web
Technologies federated clustering search
7 December 2008
useful complement to PubMed; lag time before latest articles get
into PubMed prevents timely notice of interesting developments or
awareness of perhaps ultimately insignificant but nonetheless
interesting, thought-provoking developments; includes EurekAlerts
identified by institution or organization; excellent way to
monitor centers of research activity in certain medical
conditions; 2 hyear meta-analysis to appear in PubMed; press
releases can be informative; provides results by author enabling
determination of leading authority in a field; Premium Mednar plan
includes subscription sources; Incremental Searching allows for
immediate viewing of the initial results while the slower sources
continue to search and retrieve;
MetaCrawler See Comparison
of
Various
Metasearch
engines
5
September 2001
searches Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, Ask Jeeves, About, MIVA,
LookSmart; image, audio, video & news channel searches;
language, date & domain filters, Search Filter for sexually
explicit material; Comparison View compares results from search
engine(s) of choice to combined results
MetaLib:
federated search portal from GPO (Government Printing Office) review
17 October 2010
Databases Used with
Basic Search: AGRICOLA Books, Access to Archival
Databases(AAD) System - NARA, AUL Index to Military Periodicals,
Catalog of US Government Publications(CGP), Education Resources
Information Center(ERIC), Environmental Protection Agency(EPA)
Catalog Search, Library of Congress(LOC), PubMed, USA.gov; Create
sets of searchable database collections using A-Z Resource List;
Access & search interface of database from originating
institution/agency; Save configurations & resources to your
"E-shelf", a personalized collection manager based on your browser
session; Email &/or save records in various formats (e.g.,
MARC21, Standard, ProCite) & encoding (e.g., UTF-8, ISO
8859-1, ASCII);
Metasearch detailed
guide, limited content in broken English
29 November 2005
Meta-Search
by Tag or Site URL
5 June 2006
Tagground(beta) searches
tagging sites, including digg, del.icio.us, Ma.gnolia, &
RawSugar;
Metasearch eBooks
by author, title, or keyword/ISBN with Addall
2
September 2010
Meta
Search Engine Roundup(SearchDay,
September 18, 2002. No. 358)
3 October 2002
Other
Meta Search Engines(SearchDay,
Sept 19, 2002, No. 359)
Meta Search Engines 18 May 2003
Meta
Search Engines: Web Searcher's Best Friends
23 August
2003
Metasearch,
federated search or universal search(ResourceShelf)
18 May
2007
Metasearch
systems: some thoughts
13
February 2010
Metor Search
5 June
2001
unsophisticated; set your timeout; relevance ranking; Check,
Analyze, Browse features to see your words in context &
navigate results
meX
10 November 2005
flash clustering metasearch engine with video agent displays
results with interactive maps to distinguish between relevant
& irrelevant documents;
Mighty
Metas!(Altsearchengines)
CrossEngine, GoshMe,
Srchr;
21 June 2007
Molu metasearch has a great
tree of the engines it’s searching (review)
3 November 2010
Moonmist Metasearch
2 September
2001
specialty of searching UK & European sources, such as Mirago,
Splut, UKIndex. with worldwide meta search.
Myriad Search/Authority
Finder
6 October 2005
search results with relative rankings from Ask Jeeves, Google, MSN
Search & Yahoo; displays description or snippet for each page,
sums up authority value as determined by position in all search
engines; skew results by adding or subtracting bias values for a
particular engine; Myriad
Search FAQ;
Natural
language Meta searchers Kartoo
visual
search, One2Seek, Ixquick
19 July 2004
Newsiness
Metasearch
19 June 2005
Yahoo News & Google News, menubar with links to news
providers: CBS, CNN, ABC, Business Week;
NIH Library
AllPlus Search Demo results from PubMed, MedlinePlus, NIH
Library Catalog 31 October 2009
displays results from above & other sources on 1 page; select
particular databases to search;
Oamos metasearch
engine with audio-visual display interfaces
(Beta)
18 February 2008
questions search engines for up-to-date news, images, synonyms,
music & videos on your topic to stream audiovisually with or
without sound, with or without links; .
OAIster digital
resources union catalogue
24 September 2002
collections from institutions include description, number of
records from each collection; (20 May 2005) Open Archives
Initiative (OAI) Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (PMH) 4.8m
metadata records from 400+ organisations worldwide; some hidden
behind search forms or CGI script inaccessible to search engines;
text, images, audio & video files - repositories carrying
mainly bibliographic records are removed or asked to isolate
digital content for harvesting; monthly updates; duplication
& search via variable date formats problem ; metadata included
in Yahoo! search index since March 2004; Google use only URLs; If
you use Firefox, you can add OAIster as a search engine plugin in
your browser toolbar; (13 April 09) 20m+ rcords from 1000+
institutions; Search
Entire Record, Title, Author/ Creator, Subject & filter on
Language; Boolean search & wildcards; Filter results on types
like text, images, audio, video & data sets; Sort criteria;
repositories & number of hits; works with SRU
(Search/Retrieval via URL) & supports CQL (Contextual Query
Language)
OJOSE: Online JOurnal Search
Engine
10 July 2006
free scientific metasearch in databases using only1search field;
download or buy journals, articles, research reports, books in 60
databases; translate option;
OmniMedicalSearch.com -
MetaSearch Medical Search Engines
29 July 2004
general medical, medical news & medical image search engines
& databases professional & layman; 72 databases, medical
journals & associations
Open Data Search
metasearch tool: find & access Open Government data sets
23 March 2011
global version of prototype publicdata.eu site; aggregator for
datasets, providing simple, unified search interface to all
catalogues contained including known instances of CKAN software,
Sunlight Foundation’s National Data Catalog(with many US-based
data sources), World Bank data catalogue, Sweden’s
DCat-enabled OpenGov.se & Nexedi’s Data Publica portal,
search.ckan.net with access to combined index of all CKANs; how
it
works;
Opsdo
15 July 2006
search via engines & information sources not well covered by
major search tools & search groups of sources; download search
toolbar plugin; Free;
OvGuide.com - metasearch
for video content
20 February 2009
aggregates video content from YouTube, Hulu, Blinkx, & 3000+
other sites; Founder
answers video search questions; rules ranking of search
results include user statistics, such as clicks & time spent
on site; no image processing at present
PageBull
11 December 2006
results presented as pictures of search result pages without text
in 3 by 4, 2 by 6 or 4 by 3 image grid depending browser window
size; small info link; + sign to enlarge image of page; needs fast
broadband with speed 1Mbps+(DSL, cable or office
network)..JavaScript enabled; mousewheel, monitor with 1280+
pixels
Pandia Metasearch
Engine
25 February 2008
search engines including Yahoo!, MSN, AlltheWeb, Ask.com, Wisenut
; Pandia Metasearch & Vivisimo are only meta-search engines
these days that do not include paid results on purpose [True in
2001, still true?]
Patent
Lens(Australia)
20 July 2007
Center for the Application of Molecular Biology to International
Agriculture(CAMBIA);
FAQ;
searchable full-text database of 7m+ patents & patent
applications from WIPO), USPTO, EPO, & IP Australia uploaded
weekly; incorporates INPADOC bibliographic data from 70+ countries
& legal status data from 40+ patent authorities; keyword
search; Quick keyword
search box or patent number & dropdown menu of 4 agencies;
toggle stemming, sort by relevance score, patent number, filing
date or publication date; Structured
field searches e.g., title, abstract, inventor, assignee; boolean
and/or; filter results by publication or filing date,
predicted expiration date for US). Stemming, item number &
sorting; Expert search
Boolean options, restrict by date, filtering, stemming, display
& sorting options; BLAST
National Center for Biotechnology Information’s technology to
search sequences listed in US patents & published patent
applications; RSS feed search updates, intellectual property news,
& discussion forums on Patent Lens itself, patent informatics,
intellectual property, & “technology landscapes”;
PolyCola (Formerly
GahooYoogle)
23 March
2010
search any 2 major search engines at the same time, & see the
results from each engine in a split screen;
Previewseek(beta)
3 February 2006
pending algorithms utilizing artificial intelligence, Bayesian
statistical data mining, word-sense disambiguation, cognitive
visualization theory, heterogeneous database querying
technologies, behavioral psychology; major search engines; full
preview feature; clusters results by related concepts or
words; Free;
PureVideo metasearch for
video content
16 November 2006
searches video providers; popularity charts for 30+ video
providers (YouTube, CNN, ESPN, BusinessWeek, etc.);
qbSearch
11 July 2001
qb(quickbrowse) grabs original pages & presents together in
one long page
ResultR
26
October 2006
return results from specified sources in a single page; create a
personalized search engine free without registration;
Scoopler: real-time
metasearch for Twitter, Digg, Delicious, & Flickr
9 May 2009
ScrapeTorrent
25 August 2006
free basic search of 4 Torrent search sites(including IsoHunt
&d TorrentSpy); sort by number of seeds, date, or name of
Torrent, filter out zero-seed results. Results sorted by source;
Firefox extension; preferences - porn filter, reset font size;
SDARTS Protocol
& Toolkit for Metasearching
3 July 2005
Search.com (CBS) 13 February 2010
searchCrystal
visualization tool
24
January 2008
search & compare multiple enginese, remix & share results
from best web, image, video, blog, tagging, news engines, Flickr
images or RSS feeds;
Search.io tabbed
search
2 December 2008
Topics range from default search engines to blogs, torrents,
popular Web 2.0 sites , latest searches, Alta Vista, Lycos, people
& social bookmarks searches
Searchzooka: create a
complex search & run it on different sites
24 January 2010
include keywords, exclude keywords, sort results by date, limit
your search by date span, domains or top-level domains; summaries
search & links to launch your search on engines including
Google, Bing, Digg, Technorati, & Ask; organize searchings
into folders, clone search as basis for a new search, &
add notations (recovery key makes customizing possible without
registration);
SnakeT(SNippet
Aggregation for Knowledge ExTraction)
29
May 2005
Social
Search
18 May 2007
yoName, searches for people by
username, e-mail address, or first & last name, Wink metasearch engine queries
social networks; ZoomInfo
metasearch engine/social network distinguished from popular
networks, such as MySpace & Facebook by focusing on business
people; Social
Media Firehose (SMF) beta queries Flickr, Twitter,
Friendfeed & Digg, returns results to review by thumbnail
images or by text headlines;
SortFix
11 March 2008
searches Google, Yahoo & dmoz; presents search result in a
drag-and-drop Search User Interface which assists user to refine
query; system scans results & extracts optimal terms(“Power
Words”) based on text mining algorithms;
Start Page (fomerly Ixquick Metasearch ) 7 July 2009
Super
Search FireFox addon combines 160+ people search &
web search engines in toolbar 12 September
2009
Access 67 most popular engines from toolbar search, included
engines from Toolbar drop-downs; Grouped in 4 categories:Web
search(Google, Yahoo, Bing, StumbleUpon) including real-time
Twitter-based search & social search; People search(Twelow,
Facebook, YoName, ZomInfo); New, Blogs and More (including
Craiglist, Google & Yahoo Groups); Video, Images & Audio
(YouTube, Revver, Vimeo);
SurfWax,
Inc. 2001 - Advanced Web Searching
20
July 2001
best with IE & Netscape; personalized SearchSets or InfoCubby
with registration - 3 levels: free, Silver($24/year),
Gold($60/year). Free registration limits number of SearchSets you
create & number of sources used; non-intrusive, asking for a
name for front page greeting, e-mail address, password; My
SearchSets link; 1200 sources load slowly on dial-up; free
registration accesses 250 sources. Silver registrants 750, Gold
registrants 1200; listing of free source, list sources by
categories or search them by keyword;
Profile
Tabbed search See Search.io
Tag
metasearch See Keotag(above)
12 April 2008
Taggylicio.us (beta) meta
search engine queries tagging sites Flickr, Photobucket, YouTube,
Digg, Reddit, Dailymotion & Del.icio.us;
Talk Digger
17 July
2006
helps users find, follow & join conversations; URL of a piece
of BBC news, blog post, product page; paste URL in Talk Digger
search box & press Dig it!; Talk Digger will then ask major
search engines "Who linked to that URL?"
Topic-Specific
Meta Search Engine Gateways: Gigablast Custom Topic Search
6 January 2005
a) HTML snippet integrates search form on one site page;
personaliz & allow a custom list of sites/domains/paths to
search. b) up to 200 sites/domains/paths! c) clustering
optional. Gigablast Custom Topic Search is free of charge for
immediate implementation on your site.
Torrent Typhoon
meta-searches
BitTorrent
sites, including TorrentBox, TorrentSpy, MiniNova 13 November 2005
400000+(8 sites); keyword search; results give Torrent name, size,
seeds, & peers. Dead Torrents arent listed, default searching
time is 2 seconds/site (change to between 1 and 4); RSS feed
for news updates; Torrentz;
ToxSeek metasearch & clustering for environmental health &toxicology 8 July 2006
Trexy remembers searches on 3000+
search engines including Google;
23 June 2006
follow other searchers - download
TrailBar
Trovando Firefox search
plugin & search toolbar for Internet Explorer/Firefox
1 September 2005
250+ search engines in categories (Web, Images, Reference, Tag,
News, Price, Blogs, AudioVideo, Torrent, URL); URL tab finds
backlinks, Whois domain name, archived copies of page; add 3300+
search engines from mycroft archives
& save customization with bookmarklet, without registration.
Turbo10 search engine crawls hidden
Web
14
Feb 2002
some hidden Web in search results; accesses business associations,
universities, libraries, government departments; specific legal
databases such as Australasian Legal Information Institute;
AltaVista, DMOZ, Dogpile, Encyclopedia.com, Google, MSN Search
& Teoma; personalization feature; set up topics or channels of
up to 10 search tools selected from Turbo10's list; Make
way for the contender to Google's crown (The Register,
May 30, 2003 )
viaLibri Resources
for Bibliophiles & metasearch for old & rare books
29 December 2008
18 web sites aggregate the inventory of 20000+ antiquarian
booksellers world-wide; Reference &
research, forums & blogs for bibliofiles; 553 years of
printing history retrieved from our cache of recent matches;
Multi-national
union & census catalogues;
Vivisimo - Organize your Search!
See Comparison of Various Metasearch engines
11 July 2001
Document clustering technology.Vivisimo licenses its
parsing,clustering, browser display products to OEMs & end
users who already possess a search engine or other source of
documents; drill through several layers of categorization; no paid
links; free Vivísimo
Demo: PubMed categorizes textual information into
meaningful, hierarchically sorted categories; Vivisimo
MiniBAR; Vivisimo Toolbar - pop-up
blocker, find keywords on results pages. With either toolbar, when
someone enters text while visiting another search site, query
terms automatically appear in MiniBAR search box; English/German
versions; now used for Dogpile, MetaCrawler, WebCrawler &
Killerinfo.com; clusters
results from Slashdot & open source
projects via Freshmeat & SourceForge; >Velocity dynamic
clustering & meta/ federated search for web, fee-based, &
internal databases on common interface; includes Vivisimo's own
crawler; Repeat
Visits
to Vivisimo.com: Implications for Successive Web Searching;
18 Jan 2007 Vivísimo selected by NLM to enhance searching; Shakespeare searched
(built with Vivisimo Velocity) for quick access
to passages from Shakespeare's plays & sonnets clustered
topic, work, character; 4 Sept 09 updated search engine for
multipleNBII databases powered
by Vivisimo; 27 Apr 2012: IBM
buys V allegedly for its big data prowess;
WebClust
9 August 2005
queries search engines, parses result pages to extract documents
(titles, URLs, short descriptions) & groups documents based on
this info
Web Ferret 5.0
5 October 2002
query number of different search engines, validate selected
results, save search histories, filter out pornography &
inappropriate language; uninstaller, interface to eliminate banner
ads; toolbar integrated into IE; compatible with Windows 98+
willsurf many facets of searching 25 July 2001
Wink social bookmarks
service & social list(collections) service
10 March 2006
lets you tag; crawls Digg, Furl, Slashdot & Yahoo MyWeb plus
user-imported tags from del.icio.us; TagRank(tm) algorithms rank
pages for relevance; search social web, refine results by ratings;
Google results for comparison;
Yauba privacy-safe, real-time
search
10 December 2010
distributed electronic semantic intelligence(DESI) algorithms
& word-sense disambiguation extraction technologies can
automatically identify referential "meanings" embedded in search
terms, focusing on semantic concepts rather than frequency of
search terms;
YouTorrent metasearch
See also Yauba
17 January 2008
searches top torrent engines, including Mininova, Pirate Bay,
isoHunt, SumoTorrent, myBittorrent, Monova, Vuze, BitTorrent,
LegitTorrents, SeedPeer, & BTjunkie;
YurNet.com
26 August 2006
Google, Yahoo!, MSN, WiseNut, Altavista, ODP; options for
different kinds of queries; viewing options provide summary, show
sources, group results; Find more like this; Boolean OR &
compound queries; comparison page for 3 engines displayed in panes
from groupings for Web(including Yurnet), Images, Video, Blog,
News or Resources; Internet Toolbox offers Whois/domain searches
at Alexa, DNS & Reverse DNS lookup, DNS/email reports; Search terms quickly for top
rank sites; Quicktime troubleshooting from page at Apple;
Specialty Search for answers(Ask.com & Brainboost), get
weather, check eBay & other vertical slices; YurNet blog;
ZapMeta
27
February 2004
Boolean commands, phrase, proximity(NEAR), truncation, &
searching by field, host, domain, URL, title; snapshots, keyword
highlights..no banner or popup ads; limit search by
continent, domain or host; sort results by relevance(default),
popularity, title, source or domain; Boolean &
Field Searching
ZDNet:
Meta
Search Engines Reviewed
25 July 2001
Zippy - webmaster's meta search
engine
1 December 2006
each domain has age of site, IP address, data on site from Google,
Yahoo, MSN, Ask, Alexa, Technorati & Internet Archive; back-
links, deeplinks, indexed pages; top 100 ranking keywords, server
information, text information, phrases on page, & textual
content;
Xooda United Kingdom - Smart
Metasearch
18 March 2007
searches Altavista, Ask, Google, MSN, Yahoo, Abacho, Accoona,
Exalead, Gigablast, Mirago, WiseNut, Dmoz, EntireWeb. ; regional
versions with appropriate local search engines for Australia,
Canada, China, Germany, Denmark, Spain, France, HK, Italy, Japan,
Korea, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Taiwan, US.
Zuula
11 January 2007
web, news, images, blogs; searches web for Google, Yahoo,
MSN, Ask, Gigablast, & Exalead, results are presented for each
engine through tabs; searching of video sites, including Google
Video, YouTube, iFilm, MetaCafe, & DailyMotion; tabbed
metasearch now includes Web Search, Images, Video, News, Blog
Search, & Jobs; 14 October 2010:
Zuula 2.0 Dynamic Pruning
removes duplicates, search result page shows tabs for results from
search engines including Google, Bing, Exalead, Gigablast, &
Mojeek, first tab shows all Google results(Preferences option to
change order of tabs), second tab, Bing, shows only results which
didn’t appear in Google; .