Sphinn - Top 12 Most Useful Meta Search Engines

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Went Hot: December 25, 2007 - 7:07 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 293 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: Searching

I’m not quite sure why metasearch engines aren’t more popular than they are. They are actually pretty darn useful much of the time, but they languish far down the list of popular search engines. Still, I don’t think it hurts to take a fresh look at them now and then, so today’s post is all about the metasearch engine.

First, let’s make sure everyone is clear on what a metasearch engine is. It is not a search engine that ranks sites based on meta tags. It is a search engine that grabs results from a multitude of search engines (and/or directories), and returns those results, usually mixed together using its own algorithm. I’m not sure if returning results for each search engine separately (such as in different tabs) would really qualify as a metasearch engine or not, but I’m going to include that kind here as well.

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from Lodispoto 290 days ago #

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The most useful Meta Search engine will be EarthFrisk.Org, a combo Meta and Community like what Wiki will be tryying in a few weeks, only better, with more features and also our own ranking system complete with toolbars and the new CV rating ( color value) . It launches Monday and I commented in another thread on it.
http://sphinn.com/story/20236

from jendre 263 days ago #

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Another interesting metasearch engine is AllPlus. It is doing clustering but also it is displaying different dimensions of the search on the same page: results, images, videos, news, blogs.