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ee metacrawlers: Definition and Recommended Links

Our favorite links for this topic area. Enjoy, fellow researchers! Questions, comments, new links? Email eewindow@aol.com!.

these sites are 'super' search engines. they conduct searches of several search engines using the keyword(s) which you have indicated in your search query. metacrawler queries the other search engines, organizes the results into a uniform format, ranks them by relevance and returns them to the user.

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• • ee metacrawlers
    • these sites are 'super' search engines. they conduct searches of several search engines using the keyword(s) which you have indicated in your search query. metacrawler queries the other search engines, organizes the results into a uniform format, ranks them by relevance and returns them to the user.

      (Note: The Electronic Engineers Toolbox provides an alternative set of featured links for this word at http://www.cera2.com/metacrawler.htm)

      Featured Links:

      SurfWax

      SurfWax brings intelligence and efficiency to the Open Web through targeted, multi-source (federated) searching that is seamlessly integrated with practical knowledge tools to save you time and improve productivity.
      http://www.surfwax.com/

      Ithaki

      Ithaki is a metasearch engine, which means we search in other search engines and databases to find the results for your query. There's no other metasearch engine armed with so many different search channels to enhance your search & available in so many different languages
      http://www.ithaki.net/

      Clusty

      Clusty, from Vivisimo, presents both standard web search results and Vivisimo's dynamic clusters that automatically categorize results. Clusty allows you to use Vivisimo's dynamic clustering technology on ten different types of web content including material from the web, image, weblog and shopping databases. You can access each type of search by simply clicking a tab directly above the search box.
      http://clusty.com/

      Copernic

      This downloadable SHAREWARE - well, almost free - program allows you to search several engines at once, pre-view results, sort by domain, rating, etc. It is a "must have" tool for the serious searcher.
      http://www.copernic.com/

      IxQuick

      IxQuick.com is a remarkable MetaSearch Engine that has won numerous awards, praise and recognition for being the best of its kind. It was created keeping researchers, educators, historians, librarians, scholars, students and the world's scientific, literary and media community in mind: those who are dedicated to keeping us better informed and making all of our lives richer, easier and more fulfilling. Not an easy audience to play to.
      http://www.ixquick.com/

      Vivísimo Clustering Engine

      Enter a search term, and Vivismo will not only pull back matching responses from major search engines but also automatically organize the pages into categories. Slick and easy to use. Vivisimo won second place for Best Meta Search Engine in the 2003 Search Engine Watch awards and winner in 2002.
      http://vivisimo.com/

      InfoGrid

      In a compact format, InfoGrid provides direct links to major search sites and topical web sites in different categories. Meta search and news searching is also offered.
      http://www.infogrid.com/

      EZ-Find at The River

      This utility lets you enter keywords to search for on the Net, and then submit them in turn to several search engines without having to retype them for each engine. Note it only searches one engine at a time. Pressing Enter (rather than pushing a button) in most browsers will cause WebCrawler to be searched.
      http://info.theriver.com/TheRiver/ezfind.htm

      Fast Search

      All-in-one meta search site. Claims to index more pages, faster, than Google.com
      http://www.alltheweb.com/

      MetaCrawler

      All-in-one search engine, searching the following search engines: Alta Vista * Excite * Infoseek * Lycos * Webcrawler.
      http://www.metacrawler.com/

      Explanation: these links are provided as part of our EE glossary project, which seeks to identify the most prominent keywords in embedded systems, embedded software, realtime and rtos, dsp (digital signal processing), system-on-a-chip, microprocessors and microcontrollers, and other constituent elements for embedded systems. While we seek to keep most of the links up-to-date, the user is refered to other primary electronic-based search sites such as: cera2.com, embedded.com, or EDN Magazine. If you have any suggestions of links or definitions, please email!

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