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by Muhammad Ridzuan
This update is to get you to know another metasearch engine. Did you ever hear about MetaCrawler? MetaCrawler was orinally developed in 1994 at the University of Washington by then graduate student Erik Selberg and Associate Professor Oren Etzioni. MetaCrawler.com utilizes metasearch technology to compile results from many of the Web's major search properties, delivering more relevant and comprehensive results every time you search. By accessing multiple search engines for each query, MetaCrawler.com provides you with a richer and more relevant spectrum of results than you would from using any single search engine. Besides, MetaCrawler blends the top web search results from google, Yahoo, Bing (formerly Live Search), Ask.com, About.com, MIVA, LookSmart and other popular search engines.
The search results you receive are a combination of the top commercial (sponsored advertising) and non-commercial (algorithmic) results from the most popular search engines on the Web. MetaCrawler’s metasearch technology combines the top ranking search results from each of the separate search engines based on your specific query. Instead of searching through each of the web pages for the best results, the MetaCrawler search engine returns the best results from each of the top search engines. Saves you time, and time afterall equals money.
Most search engines have a system of ranking pages according to their relevancy to the search criteria. The meta crawler search engine ranking does not work in this way. Actually, MetaCrawler does not rank pages at all. Instead, it uses the ranking of the pages that was given by the original search engine to order the search results.
For example, a page that was ranked high in 7 out of 10 search engines will be ordered higher than a page that was ranked high in only 3 out of 10 searches. Since the meta crawler does not do page ranking, it would be pointless to work to improve your MetaCrawler search engine ranking. If you would like to improve the order of your page on a MetaCrawler search engine, then you will need to improve the ranking of your page on each individual search engine.
References:
http://www.metacrawler.com/metacrawler/ws/about?_IceUrl=true
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaCrawler
http://www.servicewrap.net/metacrawler.html
The search results you receive are a combination of the top commercial (sponsored advertising) and non-commercial (algorithmic) results from the most popular search engines on the Web. MetaCrawler’s metasearch technology combines the top ranking search results from each of the separate search engines based on your specific query. Instead of searching through each of the web pages for the best results, the MetaCrawler search engine returns the best results from each of the top search engines. Saves you time, and time afterall equals money.
Most search engines have a system of ranking pages according to their relevancy to the search criteria. The meta crawler search engine ranking does not work in this way. Actually, MetaCrawler does not rank pages at all. Instead, it uses the ranking of the pages that was given by the original search engine to order the search results.
For example, a page that was ranked high in 7 out of 10 search engines will be ordered higher than a page that was ranked high in only 3 out of 10 searches. Since the meta crawler does not do page ranking, it would be pointless to work to improve your MetaCrawler search engine ranking. If you would like to improve the order of your page on a MetaCrawler search engine, then you will need to improve the ranking of your page on each individual search engine.
References:
http://www.metacrawler.com/metacrawler/ws/about?_IceUrl=true
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaCrawler
http://www.servicewrap.net/metacrawler.html
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