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MetaCrawler

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It was originally a metasearch engine, as its name suggests. Throughout its lifetime it combined web search results from sources including Google, Yahoo!, Bing (formerly Live Search), Ask.com, About.com, MIVA, LookSmart and other search engine programs.

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  • Free • Proprietary

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  • Online
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    Proprietary and Free product.

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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What is MetaCrawler?

It was originally a metasearch engine, as its name suggests. Throughout its lifetime it combined web search results from sources including Google, Yahoo!, Bing (formerly Live Search), Ask.com, About.com, MIVA, LookSmart and other search engine programs. MetaCrawler also provided users the option to search for images, video, news, business and personal telephone directories, and for a while even audio. MetaCrawler was originally developed in 1994 at the University of Washington by graduate student Erik Selberg and Professor Oren Etzioni.

In 2014, MetaCrawler was merged into another one of InfoSpace's search engines In 2017, MetaCrawler relaunched as its own search engine.

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