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January 12, 2005

Useful Meta-Interface Search Engine: MrSapo

I know a search engine that gathers results from many other search engines is called a meta-search engine. However I don't know what it's called when a site gathers many...

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September 30, 2004

Vivisimo Launches New Search Engine

Vivisimo has launched a new search engine, Clusty. I'm going to get in a lot of trouble because I keep wanting to type "Crusty" instead of "Clusty" but let's continue...

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June 14, 2004

Vivisimo Gets Clustery With Slashdot, Open Source

A bucket of props to his Internetness Gary Price ( http://www.resourceshelf.com ) for pointing to new clustering options at meta-search engine Vivisimo ( http://www.vivisimo.com ); there's an option now to...

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February 23, 2004

ZapMeta Meta-Search Offers Nice Set of Web Features

As I've said before, I'm not a big meta-search engine fan. I can usually find what I want using one search engine. But when you show me a meta-search that...

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February 10, 2004

Meta Search Engine Mamma Makes Some Upgrades

Search Engine Mamma announced last week that they've added some functionality to their meta-search engine. New features include: - Search Math -- I've never heard it called "Search Math" before,...

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February 09, 2004

Seekscan Search Engine Searches Many Types of Information

It's interesting to see a general search engine that in addition to the standard "News" and "Images," adds to its search tabs "Weblogs" and "Reference." Seekscan ( http://www.seekscan.com ) also...

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December 08, 2003

Vivisimo Getting Toolbars and Minibars

Metasearch engine Vivisimo is rolling out the search engine toolbars. The minibar is at http://vivisimo.com/minibar -- you'll need Windows and IE to use it. The toolbar is at http://vivisimo.com/toolbar and...

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October 02, 2003

Dogpile Adds a Couple Features to Its Toolbar

Metasearch engine Dogpile ( http://www.dogpile.com ) announced yesterday a couple of additions to its Dogpile Search Toolbar (available for download at http://www.dogpile.com/toolbar.htm .) The toolbar, like most toolbars, is IE...

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September 23, 2003

Search Engine Fazzle Has Interesting Features

You can use Opera with metasearch engine Fazzle ( http://www.fazzle.com/ ) but personally I found it much prettier and easier to use on IE. So this is a review done...

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September 09, 2002

InfoSpace Bags Google, Revamps MetaCrawler

InfoSpace has revamped its meta-search engine MetaCrawler ( http://www.metacrawler.com .). The search engine now returns results from Google as well as About, Ask Jeeves, FAST, FindWhat, Inktomi, LookSmart, Excite, OpenDirectory,...

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December 26, 2001

Turbo10 Opens Their Site to Specialty Search Engines

Metasearch engine Turbo10 ( http://turbo10.com) announced this week that specialty search engines can register their engines at Turbo10 and have results from their engines included on Turbo10's site. You can...

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December 25, 2000

BrightPlanet Adds To Database Collection

BrightPlanet, collector of pointers to the "Invisible Web," has more than doubled the size of its searchable database catalog. Their "database of databases" now has 38,500 entries and can be...

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November 21, 2000

Search Engine Clusters Results Into Folders

... and no, it's not Northern Light. Vivisimo ( http://www.vivisimo.com ) is a "clustering engine" (meta-search engine, actually) that acts in a very interesting way. It picks up results from...

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August 21, 2000

MetaEureka Makes Changes

Search engine MetaEureka ( http://www.metaeureka.com/ ) has added several categories to its site. You may now do meta-searches of the following topics: -- News (ABC News, CNN, MSNBC) -- Usenet...

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May 15, 2000

New Metasearch Engine Provides Cool Twist

Does the world need another metasearch engine? If it adds the groovy twist that METAEUREKA ( http://www.metaeureka.com/) provides, the answer is oh my my, oh heck yeah. METAEUREKA has a...

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April 07, 2000

SmartEngine Meta-Search Debuts at Internet World

SmartEngine -- http://www.smartengine.com/ -- is a new meta-search engine that offers metasearching in the following categories: web, auctions, images, and audio. They also offer a search of the SmartGuide, which...

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March 17, 2000

Ixquick Meta-Search Engine Gets Multi-Lingual

Meta-Search Engine Ixquick ( http://www.ixquick.com/ ), last mentioned in the February 13 ResearchBuzz, has added several languages to its interface. You can now search sets of French, German, Italian, Spanish,...

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February 19, 2000

Mohomine mohoEngine

From the press release: "Mohomine was founded in 1999 by Sameer Samat, now chief technology officer, along with three other computer science students from the University of California. Late last...

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February 13, 2000

Ixquick

A reader writes in to recommend meta-search engine Ixquick ( http://www.ixquick.com/ ). Ixquick meta-searches news, MP3 directories, and the Web. Interesting thing about it is that it awards one star...

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February 11, 2000

Skworm metasearch engine

Metasearch engine Skworm ( http://www.skworm.com/) offers meta searching in lots of different categories. Instead of pulling back the results on their own page, though, Skworm offers a framed page and...

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