This page aims to provide a comprehensive list of meta search engines available across the world.
- http://all4one.com
- Displays results from four windows in different frames, dividing the display into equal quarters for each. Display can therefore appear a bit cramped.
(Not available when last checked May 2010.) - http://favitt.com
- Not a true search engine, but a portal to the most popular search engines. favitt provides some customisation of its appearance. Provides access to Google, Bing, YouTube, News, Amazon, Wikipedia, Twitter, Digg and others.
- http://file-extension.net/seeker
- A specialist meta-search engine for file extensions. Provides a search across many different file extension lists on the internet. If you need to know about a file extension then this is probably the best place to start.
- http://ilectric.com
- Provides an interface allowing searches across different types of search engines. A bit slow compared with many of the others.
- http://monstercrawler.com/
- Monster crawler. Searches Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask, as well as returning search results from sponsors.
- http://seekky.com
- Meta search engine that uses Google, Yahoo and Live Search, and is available in a wide range of different languages. Seekky also provides access to other tools: an address locator (locating an address on a map), routing tool (for generating a route on a map from A to B), a translator and other tools.
- http://turbo10.com
- Searches against its own search engine (which sites can be added to by pain inclusion only), and a range of others.
- www.9meta.com
- Searches using Gigablast, AllTheWeb, AltaVista, Ask, Aol, Bing, Yahoo and Google. 9meta can also be used to search for images, videos or documents (pdfs etc). 9meta also allows visitors to register, enabling them to customise personal preferences.
- www.beaucoup.com
- Uses Ask Jeeves, Lycos, MSN and others.
- www.click4choice.co.uk/meta/
- Click for Choice search engine. Uses Yahoo, MSN and Jeeves.
- www.click4choice.com/meta/
- Click for Choice search engine. Uses Yahoo, MSN and Jeeves.
- www.dogpile.com
- Uses Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, About, LookSmart, Overture and FindWhat. Engines used may change over time.
- www.dosearch.com
- Not a true (meta-)search engine, but a portal to a wide number of search engines.
- www.etools.ch
- Fast and transparent metasearch engine in Swiss quality. Simultaneously queries major Swiss, German and international search engines with one click. Also supports mobile devices.
- www.excite.com
- Uses Google, Yahoo and Bing.
- www.formgle.com
- Formgle describes itself as a front end to other search engines. Before you can make a search you need to select which search engines you want to use, these can either be conventional search engines (such as google, yahoo or msn) or ones specific to a given interest sector such as Flights, Translation, Dictionaries etc.
- www.ixquick.com
- Uses: AOL, Altavista, Excite, Fast Search, Goto, Hotbot, Infoseek, Live Directory, LookSmart, Lycos, MSN, Snap, Webcrawler and Yahoo.
- www.kartoo.com
- Provides a very unique way of displaying results, which does make it stand out from the crowd.
- www.mamma.com
- Searches Yahoo, Bing, and Ask.
- www.metacrawler.com
- Uses Infoseek, LookSmart, Lycos, WebCrawler, GoTo, DirectHit, Google, Internet Keyword, FindWhat. Engines used may change over time.
- www.ownmine.com
- Meta search engine that collects search results from Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask Jeeves. Also includes a live chat facility to chatting with other users with similar searches.
- www.search.com
- Uses Snap, Direct Hit,Yahoo, Lycos, Inktomi and others.
- www.search3.com
- Search3 provides results from Google, twitter and bing, presenting these in separate columns on one page.
- www.surfwax.com
- Provides results from AllTheWeb, Yahoo and MSN.
- www.tripleme.com
- The TripleMe Search Engine fetches results from MSN, Yahoo, Google on one screen to search more efficiently. One screen - 30 results. You can search locally or globally, supports all languages, all results and spelling suggestions. Also, you can compare performance of different search engines. Site opens separate windows for each search engine selected, so in this sense it is not a true meta-search engine.
- www.webcrawler.com
- Uses Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.
- www.webnocular.com
- Uses Google, Yahoo and Bing. Also allows searches across jobs, classified, RealEstate, and others.
The following are not browser based meta-search engine, but are installable software. They do otherwise provide similar functionality:
- www.ferretsoft.com
- WebFerret (Windows platforms only) searches using a number of search engines and presents the results as a single (although often lengthy) list. Free.
- www.puffinwarellc.com
- iMetaSearch is a Windows based meta search tool that automatically creates topics of related results and a word/phrase index using Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). What makes it unique is that all the results, topics and words are linked together based on LSA computations so that check marking any result, topic or word, finds related ones.
Both a free and paid (professional) versions are available. The free version uses Google and limits results to 100. The professional (paid) version uses a number of additional search engines and imposes no limits on the number of results.