If You Want a Real Meta-Search, Try Dogpile

HotBot isn’t the only Web site that lets you search multiple search engines. It
isn’t even the best at doing this. That’s because the top meta-search engines not
only let you search multiple sites with a single query, but they also combine the
results onto a single search results page. (HotBot doesn’t.)
If you’re interested in checking out some meta-search sites, take a look at Table
10-1, which lists the major meta-searchers, along with what sites they search.
All of these sites consolidate their results into a single list and eliminate duplicate
listings from the different search engines.

About.com
AllTheWeb
AltaVista
Ask Jeeves/Teoma
FindWhat
Google
LookSmart
Overture
Yahoo! Directory

GoGettem www.gogettem.com AllTheWeb
AltaVista
HotBot (Inktomi)
Open Directory
Teoma
Yahoo! Directory
Yahoo! (Google)
Mamma www.mamma.com About.com
Business.com
FindWhat
LookSmart
MSN Search
Open Directory
Teoma
MetaCrawler www.metacrawler.com AllTheWeb
Ask Jeeves
AstraWeb
BoardReader
Ditto
FindWhat
Google
Inktomi
LookSmart
MP3Board
Open Directory
Overture
PriceGrabber
Search.com www.search.com About.com
AltaVista
Ask Jeeves
Britannica.com
Business.com
CNET Shopper
FindWhat
Kanoodle
LookSmart
My Simon
Open Directory
Overture
Sprinks
Surf Point
Thunderstone
Wisenut
Yahoo! Directory
And then there’s Excite. As you learned in Chapter 4, Excite searches 11 different
search sites (About.com, AllTheWeb, Ask Jeeves, FindWhat, Google,
Inktomi, LookSmart, the Open Directory, Overture, Search Hippo, and Sprinks),
and it combines the results into a single search list. This makes Excite oone of the
best of the meta-search sites—even though it’s technically a portal!