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MetaCrawler
www.metacrawler.com
MetaCrawler is a Meta search engine. That means that it will search several different search engines at once. It then combines all the results and merges them together in a display for you to choose your links. There are a number of Meta search engines and MetaCrawler is the most popular. It searches AltaVista, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, WebCrawler, and Yahoo. This can be very attractive as one stop shopping. However meta search engines tend to be slow, their method of searching each individual search engine may not work for your search and how they display the results may bury the links you want too far down the list.