MetaCrawler is a metasearch engine that blends the top web search results from Google, Yahoo!, Bing (formerly Live Search), Ask.com, About.com, MIVA, LookSmart and other popular search engines. MetaCrawler also provides users the option to search for images, video, news, yellow pages and white pages. MetaCrawler hit its stride in the late 90's when the verb "metacrawled" was used by talk show host Conan O'Brien on TRL. It used to provide the opti...
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