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Technology in the Libraries >> Sorting Out Internet Search Engines>> The Meta Crawlers and Bots
The Meta Crawlers and Bots
| Internet Search Engine Groupings |
| The Major Internet Search Engines Academic and Scholarly Search Engines Open Access Portals and Scholarly Repositories News, RSS and Blog 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 offers a customized list of major search engines and returns query results by search engine grouping.
Vivisimo returns search results categorized, so it is a simple matter to choose the relevant results.
Kart00 displays search results as a visual map connecting related keywords.
Ixquick returns the top 10 results from each of the major search engines.
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