15 Minute Series What is a web meta-searcher?



A meta-searcher helps to make this task more efficient by providing a central location where the query is typed in once, and results can be obtained from multiple search engines.

Meta-searchers differ from other search engines and indexes:

*Single search engines and indexes provide a collection, or database of resources that can be queried.

*Meta-searchers do not provide a database. They provide a service that sends a single query to multiple databases.

Diagram of person sending a query to a meta-searcher which then sends it to several search engines



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