15 Minute Series What is a web meta-searcher?


Because the content of search engines, indexes, and databases will vary, the same query typed into several search engines is likely to produce different results. When searching a topic, users often want to see results from various sources.

One way to compare the results of several search engines is to type and retype a query into individual search engines one at a time. This can be very time consuming.

Diagram of person sending a query to three different search engines




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