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These sites do not crawl the web themselves to build an index. Instead they allow searches to be sent to several search engines all at once. The results are then unified. They may either present results from each engine one after the other (parallel search), or blend them, removing duplicates.

Resources in This Category

• AmSeek

  http://www.amseek.com/
  Meta-search engine combining results from a number of search engines.

• ApocalX

  http://search.apocalx.net/
  Combined results from Google, Bing and Yahoo! Special search for recipes and reviews.

• Carrot2

  http://search.carrot2.org/
  Search results clustering engine pulling data from a meta-search engine, Bing, Wikipedia and other sources. Also provides visual representations of the clusters.

• Dogpile

  http://www.dogpile.com/
  InfoSpace metasearch engine offering search of the general web, or images, audio, video and news. Also offers search of Yellow Pages and White Pages.

• eLocalFinder

  http://www.elocalfinder.com/SearchEngineComparison
  Combined results from Google, Yahoo, Live and Altavista. The results of the different search engines are also listed for comparison. Offers local search for business.

• Findelio

  http://www.findelio.com/
  Metasearch engine and a directory with regional sections.

• FuzzFind

  http://www.fuzzfind.com/
  A web search mashup that combines user personalized search results from the leading search engines (Google, Yahoo! Search and Bing) and social bookmarking sites (del.icio.us).

• GoKookyGo

  http://www.gokookygo.net/
  Metasearch service with optional thumbshots and quick look function in many languages.

• Gopher

  http://www.gopher.com/
  Results - including sponsored ones - from the major search engines are combined. An Infospace product.

• Info.com

  http://info.com/
  Results from the major search engines and pay-per-click directories. The research tab provides results from online encyclopedias.

• iSEEK

  http://www.iseek.com/
  Results are from a compilation of authoritative resources from university, government, and established non-commercial providers.

• Ixquick

  https://ixquick.com/
  Combines the top ten results from multiple search engines. It does not store users' personal details or IP addresses and it uses SSL. Also provides an international phone directory.

• Mamma

  http://www.mamma.com/
  Metasearch tool for web, news, image, video and Twitter search. The results of each search are displayed in separate tabs.

• Metabear

  http://www.metabear.ru/
  Offers Russian, world, FTP, and MP3/video search.

• Monster Crawler

  http://www.monstercrawler.com/
  Offers search results combined from Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Ask.

• OpenText Federated Query Server

  http://fqs.opentext.com/web.htm
  Web search to demonstrate how this search solution can unify access to several information sources, clustering by site, by content, or both.

• Qksearch

  http://www.qksearch.com/
  Provides web, images, mp3, jobs, and news search in 6 different languages.

• Qrobe.it

  http://qrobe.it/
  Results from the major search engines in an infinitely scrolling list with preview function.

• Scour

  http://www.scour.com/
  Combined results from Google, Yahoo, Bing, and OneRiot, enhanced with user feedback.

• Search66

  http://search66.com/
  Metasearches the whole Web or restricts search between some countries. Duplicate results are eliminated and these from the same domain clustered.

• Searches

  http://www.searches.com/
  Options include choice between top and all engines, sorting by relevance, source, or title.

• SurfWax

  http://www.surfwax.com/
  Meta-search engine that provides real-time page summaries - 'site snaps'. Those who open free accounts can select from a list of hundreds of search sources, and save and share what they find.

• WebCrawler

  http://www.webcrawler.com/
  InfoSpace product offering combined results from Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and Ask. Searches the Web or only images, video, and news. Also offers white pages, and yellow pages.

• Yippy

  http://yippy.com/
  Combined results from a number of sources organized into clusters, with option to separate the results according to sources. Formerly known as Clusty.

• Yometa

  http://www.yometa.com/
  Results from the three major search engines in a graphic format showing their relevance according to the different search engines.

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