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The Meta Crawlers and Bots

Internet Search Engine Groupings

The Major Internet Search Engines

The Meta Crawlers and Bots

Academic and Scholarly Search Engines

Open Access Portals and Scholarly Repositories

News, RSS and Blog Search Engines

Audio, Video and Podcasting Search Engines

The Deep and Hidden Web

Government Information Portals and Search Engines

Meta Crawlers actually send your search on to several search engines at once and then combines the results on one page according to various relevancy schemes. Also referred to as "bots," Meta Crawlers are a good choice when you need to get a good starting overview.


DogPile iconDogpile 

Dogpile offers a customized list of major search engines and returns query results by search engine grouping.

Vivisimo iconVivisimo 

Vivisimo returns search results categorized, so it is a simple matter to choose the relevant results.

kartoo iconKart00 

Kart00 displays search results as a visual map connecting related keywords.

Ixquick 

Ixquick returns the top 10 results from each of the major search engines.