MetaCrawler Meta-Search users understand the value of searching the Web. By searching with MetaCrawler Meta-Search you get to search multiple search engines at once. MetaCrawler Meta-Search's technology highlights the strengths of many of the Web's major search properties, delivering more relevant and comprehensive results every time you search.

The results returned from these search engines include commercial (sponsored) and non-commercial results. The current MetaCrawler Meta-Search product is designed to identify the intent of a user's search. If the search term (i.e. buy roses) is determined to be commercial in-nature, a blended mix of results weighted towards sponsored results would be displayed. In the case of a non-commercial term (i.e. roses and aphids), the blended mix of results would be weighted towards research-driven results.

MetaCrawler Meta-Search searches and returns results from a collection of search partners, including:

1. Search Engines: A software program that searches a database by gathering and reporting information that contains or is related to specified terms.
   • Search engines searched by MetaCrawler Meta-Search include Google, FAST, Ask Jeeves and Inktomi.
2. Web Directories: Server(s) dedicated to indexing Internet Web pages and returning lists of pages, which match particular queries. Directories are normally compiled manually, by user submission, and often involve an editorial selection and/or categorization process.
   • Web directories searched by MetaCrawler Meta-Search include About, LookSmart and The Open Directory.
3. Pay-For-Placement: Engines that return relevant sponsored listings.
   • Paid search engines searched by MetaCrawler Meta-Search include Overture, FindWhat and Sprinks.
4. Other: Engines or databases that are meta-searched specifically for images, and news, as well as MetaCrawler Meta-Search Guaranteed Search Inclusion submissions.
   • Vertical search engines searched by MetaCrawler Meta-search include FAST, Dogpile Newscrawler and MetaCrawler Meta-Search Guaranteed Search Inclusion, among others.

Thanks for making MetaCrawler Meta-Search your search engine of choice.