Top 2 Metasearch Engines

Metasearch engines / metacrawlers do not crawl the web and index webpages. Instead they search other search engines simultaneously, compile the results, and display them either in groups, sorted by search engine employed, or by clustering them together and eliminating duplicates.

In other words metasearch engines allow you to search a number of search engines with one click. Because metasearch engines neither crawl and index sites, nor have a database of websites of their own, they cannot accept site submissions.

However, many metasearch engines do accept classified and/or pay per click listings for those who want guaranteed exposure.

Let's take a look at the top 2 metasearch engines.

Dogpile

Dogpile searches up to 11 search engines and displays the top 5 or 10 results from each search engine in a clustered format (listings from different search engines combined into one set of search results). It also offers listings by individual search engine.

Dogpile offers a paid inclusion service which also adds your webpages into the Search Partner Network (Dogpile, Verizon, WebCrawler, NBC, and MetaCrawler), with an option to add to Excite. The fees are really quite competitive, compared to other paid inclusion services. But I guess the reason is because the search network attracts far less searches than the top search engines.

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Mamma

Mamma is a metasearch engine that serves 21 million unique users a month on Mamma.com and her network of 14,000 third-party websites.

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