Formerly called Sea rchO n line. Gimenei queries an undisclosed number of search engines and removes duplicates from results. Its most useful feature is an advanced search form that allows you to limit your search to a specific country. The Quick View display, similar to what WiseNut has long offered, is cool. Disclosure of search sources within the actual search results is not done, sadly. Makes it hard to know exactly where the results are coming from.
Also offers shopping, news, eBay, audio and video search, as well as a number of other interesting features. Review: New Metasearch Engine: lnfo. Meta search and news searching is also offered. Click on any listing you are interested in using the P icon next to the listing title.
Also interesting is the ability to show listings in up to three columns across the screen, letting you see more results at once. It allows you to search two major search engines at the same time, then see results that are found on both first, followed by results found on only one of them next.
The small overlap visual tool displayed is great. I used to make examples like this to explain search engine overlap and why one search engine may not cover everything. Now I have an easy dynamic way to do this. The stats link at the bottom of the home page provides more visuals. For example, want to meta search only against. French version also offered. MetaCrawler was purchased by InfoSpace, an online content provider, in Feb.
Offers a nice option to see Alexa info about pages that are listed. Formerly based at the University of Kansas, the site was purchased by search company Intelliseek in April It offers both web-wide search and a wide variety of specialty search options. SavvySearch was one of the older metasearch services, around since May and formerly based at Colorado State University.
