Types of Search Engines (continued)

Metasearch Engine
Not a "true" search engine, a metasearch engine is software that takes search terms and submits them to several basic search engines. The metasearch engine usually screens out duplicate sites, ranks the results according to relevancy and, finally, displays these results. Some metasearch engines can also sort or cluster results into subject categories.

Metasearch Engines: Dogpile Metacrawler Yippy

Metasearch engines may return erroneous results because a search term may not be accepted uniformly across all various engines.

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