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Multiple search engines
Multiple search engines allow you to use many engines at once. The
good news is that this is a fast and comprehensive way to cast a wide
net. The bad news is that you cannot always narrow your search
effectively because different engines use different codes. So use
these multiple searches if you are hunting for something obscure and cannot
find enough hits when you use your favourite, single search engine:
Multiple
tools to install on your hard drive:
The
best multiple tools:
- Ixquick:
- Metacrawler
Search nine of the most popular engines
- Dogpile
Don't be turned off by the name -- a great resource that searches 23
engines at once
- Inference Infind
- MetaIQ
- Killer Info
A new metasearch engine (it uses several search engines at once) that
has two intriguing features: You can get a "quick peek" of
each result without leaving the results page. And every search also
gives you a "Table of Contents", showing you subject topics
hidden deep within the search results, making it easier to find the
sites you are looking for
- Metor After
you get your results, you can click the "Browse" button to
see all the web pages found in a convenient window. Press "Check"
to detect the availability, date and size of each page, "Analyze"
to extract the context of the search words you asked for within each
document
- Ez2wWw.com Meta Search Engine Search
the web with 1,000 specific search engines in 40 differents languages
Other
multiple tools:
The rest:
- Savvy
Search Create your own custom site
- Mamma Search
many engines, even image and sound files
- Super Seek:
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- The same keywords produce very different results from different
search engines and directories.
- Each search engine selected opens a new browser window.
- If all 12 engines are selected, 12 new browser windows will
be opened.
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- Profusion
Efficient, good ability to tweak your results. Let's use you chose the
three fastest engines or yourn own picks:
- Debriefing
You can use "quotes", + or - to improve your results:
- Netget Canada's
only MultiSearch engine
- All-in-One
- All4One
- Search Thingy
- Cyber411 Search
15 of the top search engines in parallel with one query, with results
back in 2 to 4 seconds, they claim.
- Zensearch
- Research-It
- Search Beat
Integrated web page for browsing with Web Links listed by category.
Visitors come from over 90 countries and all corners of the globe.
- LookSmart
Search directory
- 500 Virtual
Search Engines The Virtual Web Search Site
offers Over 500 fully specialized search engines within 40 categories.
Many have easy to use fill-out-forms for searching the World Wide Web,
Yellow pages, People, E-Mail Lookups, US & Canada White pages plus
hundreds more
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