| 1Second | A fast searcher using (in approx order): EntireWeb, WiseNut, Yahoo!, AOL and MSN Search, Kanoodle, About, Ah-Ha, AlltheWeb, GoClick, FindWhat, Overture, Google and, sometimes, the ODP (Open Directory Project/DMOZ). |
| Dogpile | Possibly the most popular metasearch engine on the Web, also has classified directories and news options. Mixes paid listings from Yahoo! and Google in with the main ('organic') results, which come from Yahoo!, Google, MSN/Live Search, About and Ask. Dogpile is owned and operated by InfoSpace which also runs WebCrawler and MetaCrawler. |
| Dogpile UK | The UK version of Dogpile, once used a wide range of British sources but now gets results from the same few engines as the "International" version above, intermixing the same liberal sprinkling of Yahoo! Marketing (ex-Overture) and Adwords paid listings. |
| Excite | Once a major standalone search engine, currently shows results from Google, About, Yahoo! and Ask. Excite was purchased by Ask from Interactive Search Holdings (March, 2004) along with iWon, MyWay, MySearch, and MyWebSearch. |
| Find-UK.com | D E A D UK-specific meta search using (in approx order) FAST, Gobango, Google, AltaVista, MSN, Lycos, Yahoo and UK Index as well as its own directory, which requires a link-back or a one-off payment of £5 to index a site. Often slow. And now dead. |
| InCrawler | Searches AllTheWeb, Wisenut, and its own directory of paid-for listings. |
| Info.com Info.co.uk |
World and UK options. Claims to use 14 'worldwide' (US-focus) search engines, but only Google, Ask, Yahoo! and MSN/Live Search are apparent - plus Miva in the UK. |
| InfoSpace | Like WebCrawler, which it owns, InfoSpace once delivered results using its own resources. Now it mostly sources results from the spidering engines Google, Ask and Yahoo! and the About directory. InfoSpace operates a family of Internet properties that includes Dogpile.com, InfoSpace.com, Excite.com, MetaCrawler.com and WebCrawler.com, and provides the Web search, along with online yellow and white page directories, for a variety of Web sites. |
| Ixquick Ixquick UK |
Critically acclaimed for its power, relevant results and clean, simple interface. Uses 12 sources including: AOL, AltaVista, Ask, EntireWeb, Gigablast, Go, MSN/Live Search, Mirago, Netscape, Wikipedia and Yahoo! |
| KillerInfo | Worldwide multiple searcher based in Canada. Once claimed "over 260 data sources" but now only Google, MSN/Live Search, Yahoo! and Lycos are apparent. |
| Mamma | Gets results from Ask, EntireWeb, WiseNut, FindWhat, Gigablast and the directories About.com, Business.com and DMOZ. Not based in the US, but in North America's largest Euro-centric enclave: Montréal, Québec. |
| Metacrawler | Uses the usual suspects (Yahoo!, Google, MSN/Live Search, About and Ask). Results include any deemed relevant paid-for listings from Yahoo! and Google. Metacrawler is owned and operated by InfoSpace, which also runs Dogpile and Webcrawler. |
| Metahoo! | Clean interface and ad-free meta search engine covering the Web (Ah-Ha.com, Mirago, MSN/Live Search, Findwhat, About.com, 7search, ExactSeek, Yahoo.de and Yahoo.com) and its own version of the Open Directory. Also: News, auctions, jobs, MP3, pictures and weather. |
| Moonmist | CURRENTLY OFFLINE. Original focus was on sources with a UK emphasis. Now offers worldwide and country selection that includes UK. Plus Business Search (Thomson) and People Search (BT). Unique feature: Wayback Machine option for most search results. Can be slow. |
| MultiMeta | Searches: 7search, Excite, Ah-Ha.com, Kanoodle, HotBot, Yahoo.com, AltaVista, Findwhat, Voila, Yahoo.de, MSN, Mamma.com. |
| Search.com | Owned by CNET.com, its results include general Web sites from Ask.com, Google, MSN/Live Search and the ODP, and begin with six ads from Google. |
| SearchyUK | Searchy.co.uk has a 100% UK focus and uses . As well as Mirago, it uses the co.uk or UK versions of Google, Yahoo!, Lycos, MSN/Live Search, AOL, Netscape, and more. |
| ToxicLemon | Supplies various UK results, but mainly ads, from a claimed but not specified and not used total of 10 engines and its own directory of paid-only listings. |
| Turbo10 | Turbo10 is a metasearch engine that claims to cover specialist niche search engines and databases missed at traditional search sites - over 800 in total. The default search covers only about.com, ask.com, dmoz.org, mirago.co.uk, MSN/Live Search, webfinder.com, wisenut.com, yahoo.com and yell.com. Topic-specific sources (News, Sports, Health) are optional, as is what it calls 'The Deep Net'. |
| Vroosh | Vroosh's excellent all-countries search provides meta-searching in specific countries. The UK search uses AltaVista, FAST, MSN, Yahoo!, Teoma, and the ODP. |
| WebCrawler | Once, like its current owner Infospace, a standalone engine in its own right, now an eight-source metasearcher. |
| WebWorks (This site) | All the main (and some minor) UK or World Search Engines ready to use (individually) on one page. |
| ZapMeta | ZapMeta is a new meta searcher that offers speedy, relevant results from eight search engines and the Open Directory. Uses Yahoo!, AllTheWeb, Wisenut, MSN, HotBot, AOL, plus the Open Directory IF you choose to include them here: http://www.zapmeta.com/search/meta/preferences.pl |
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