The Pandia Metasearch Engine: Searching several search engines and directories in one go.

What is the most effective way of searching the Internet? Not one search engine covers more than 30% of the entire Web, so often you have to use more that just one search engine to find what you are looking for. When using the Pandia Metasearch Engine you are searching several search sites at once.

The metasearch engine collects and sorts the hits, takes out duplicates, and presents the end result in a simple format. All this means that there is very big chance you will find what you are looking for.

Are there any drawbacks with metasearch engines? As not all the search engines use the same search syntax and operators, so it may be difficult to perform more advanced searches using Boolean search terms. So, if you do not succeed using the Pandia Metasearch Engine, we recommend that you search each search engine separately. Seasoned searchers may consult the Pandia Q-cards when doing this.

If you want to know more about effective Internet searching and metasearch engines, the Pandia Search Central has a short and easy Search Tutorial.

META SEARCH ENGINES

Pandia Award winners:
Ixquick [Pandia review]
ez2find (was ez2www) [Pandia review]

Other meta search engines:
AllPlus
Chubba
Clusty
Dogpile [Pandia review]
Dogpile UK
Draze
Fazzle
FinQoo
iBoogie
InCrawler
Mamma
Metacrawler
Multimeta (German)
PolyMeta
qksearch

META SEARCH ENGINES

Query Server
RedEsearch.com (UK)
Search.com (Savvy)
Searches.com
Search Salad
Seek2day
Seekz
NEW! SortFix
SurfWax
TripleMe
Turboscout
Vivisimo
vPinPoint
Vroosh!
WebFetchpro
WindSeek
Xooda
Zuula

ALL-IN-ONE

Sites that give access to a large number of search tools.

Pandia Powersearch
FindTarget
IcySpicy
ilectric
ithaki
MsFreckles [Pandia review]
SortFix
UnaBot