META SEARCH The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Placed in Website Design | March 2nd, 2010First, a definition. Summarized Meta-Search – a search tool that queries multiple search engines and / or web directories simultaneously and returning the results into one list without the duplicate links.
Confused? Let me give you an example. Say it is a meta search engine, you’ve discovered recently that the two search engines like Google and Yahoo. After these two search engines and returns the combined results for you, without duplicates (results that are displayed on both engines). Sounds nice, right? Well, there are pros and cons with meta-search, the user must be aware so that its users as productive as possible.
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