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 Search engines queried are Ask, Wisenut, Gigablast, and Entireweb (a serious misnomer) and directories queried are Open Directory, About, Business.com, and two pay-per-click sources.

The Pandia Metasearch Engine The famed search guide site, Pandia, offers its own excellent metasearch engine. The Pandia metasearch engine "collects and sorts the hits, takes out duplicates, and presents the end result in a simple format. "The first results you'll see are from what Pandia describes as the "essential search engines and directories," which include Google, Yahoo, HotBot and Wisenut. Strangely, Pandia continues to list AlltheWeb (Fast) and AltaVista as search engines while they acknowledge at other places on their site that Yahoo subsumed both engines. Still, this is a very good metasearch site.

Ithaki IxQuick Metacrawler Search.com Surfwax Open Directory's List of Metasearch Sites

Megasearch Sites

Megasearch sites simply store several search engines under one roof, but you have to do the searches one search engine at a time. They are becoming more sophisticated and better as time passes, serving as good entry points for finding and evaluating search engines. They are especially useful for locating international search engines. All Search Engines Find it Quick Search—22 SearchEzee Rh