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Article: Searching with meta-search engines.(searching the web)
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- Teacher Librarian
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- February 1, 2004
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Meta-search engines do not search the Web themselves. Instead, they search databases created by search engines that spicier the Web, and present the combined results.
The rationale for using meta-search engines is to save time by searching many engines simultaneously, eliminating the need to run searches on several search engines individually. This idea seems to be better in theory than in practice, however, since carefully constructed searches of the major search engines often return more relevant results than those delivered by many recta-search engines.
Results from many recta-search engines can be disappointing for a number of reasons:
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