False. A meta search engine is a simply a search engine that dispays results based on the meta tags and meta descriptions of websites. Examples for a meta search engine are:
Megaspider.com or metaspider.com
A search engine that seraches other search engines is called a mashup search engine.
Examples are:
dogpile.com - searches Google.com, Yahoo.com, Bing.com , Ask.com ....
Avasearch.com - searches Google.com but emphasizes results from the most visited websites on the net.
Clasearch.com - Searches all the best classified ads sites, including craigslsit.org, backpage.com, kijiji.com ...
You should use a metasearch engine if you need more results than you would from a regular search engine. You can also use certain metasearch engines like Ixquick or StartPage if you are concerned with privacy. Metasearch engines are usually not search engines themselves. They redirect traffic to actual search engines and then return the results. That can help privacy since the largest search engines record the details of your search. If you use a metasearch engine, then all the large search engines would have is that the metasearch engine performed a search on their sites using whatever terms at whatever time. If the metasearch engine doesn't record your search details, then it would be harder to trace the search back to you.
Generally speaking, meta search engines perform searches using a conglomeration of other search engines. Metasearch engines enable users to enter search criteria once and access several search engines simultaneously. Metasearch engines operate on the premise that the Web is too large for any one search engine to index it all and that more comprehensive search results can be obtained by combining the results from several search engines. This also may save the user from having to use multiple search engines separately.
I believe you mean "metasearch". It's a search engine which combines the results of OTHER search engines.
DescriptionA metasearch engine is an online Information retrieval tool that uses the data of a web search engine to produce its own results.
A metasearch engine (or search aggregator) is an online Information retrieval tool that uses the data of a web search engine to produce its own results. Metasearch engines take input from a user and immediately query search engines for results. ... Problems such as spamming reduces the accuracy and precision of results.
That is not exactly true. A "meta search engine" pays importance only to the meta tags and meta discriptions of the HTML code. A search engine that searches many search engines is a mashed search engine, because it mashes the api of dfferent search engines. Examples for meta search engines are: http://metaspider.com/ or http://megaspider.com/ (very old) Examples for mashed search engines are: http://dogpile.com/ or http://avasearch.com/
A metasearch engine, otherwise known as an aggregator, is a search engine that sends queries to several search engines and either aggregates the results into one master list or categorizes the results by the search engines they come from. There are dozens of metasearch engines across the internet, and Dogpile is one prominent example. In essence, a metasearch engine allows a user to enter a single query and field results from several sources. The idea is that this breadth of information allows users to get the best answers as quickly as possible. A metasearch engine is an online information retrieval tool that uses the data of a web search engine to produce its own results. Metasearch engines take input from a user and immediately query search engines for results. Sufficient data is gathered, ranked, and presented to the users. - Wikipedia
A metasearch engine, otherwise known as an aggregator, is a search engine that sends queries to several search engines and either aggregates the results into one master list or categorizes the results by the search engines they come from. There are dozens of metasearch engines across the internet, and Dogpile is one prominent example. In essence, a metasearch engine allows a user to enter a single query and field results from several sources. The idea is that this breadth of information allows users to get the best answers as quickly as possible. A metasearch engine is an online information retrieval tool that uses the data of a web search engine to produce its own results. Metasearch engines take input from a user and immediately query search engines for results. Sufficient data is gathered, ranked, and presented to the users. - Wikipedia
A web metasearch is a search involving many search engines at once. example: http://www.tripleme.com
Each search engine has different strengths and weaknesses. Using a metasearch returns results from multiple search engines. There are usually more results than from any single ordinary search engine.
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