What is metasearch?
Metasearch technology takes results from the leading search engines (Yahoo Search!, Google, MSN, Ask), eliminates the duplicates and delivers you the most comprehensive set of results. You benefit by obtaining a quicker, more accurate set of results to your query. Metasearch covers more of the Web – Using more search engines means a better overall coverage of the Web. Does it sound too obvious? In fact, an independent search engine expert has agreed, stating that our metasearch technology can search 50% more of the Web than any single search engine.* Metasearch is easy to use – Better results and more coverage of the Web is great – but not if you need an advanced degree to make it work. Mascot metasearch is easy. All you do is enter your search and click ‘Search’. The great results will take care of themselves! Search more engines, get the best results from more of the Web and do it all easily. That’s what metasearch is all about! *Disclaimer: Greg Notess, an independent search engine
The MetaSearch technology enables users to conduct federated searching- also known as simultaneous searching, cross-database searching, parallel searching, broadcast searching, and integrated searching. In this type of search process, a user submits a query to numerous information resources. They can be heterogeneous in many respects- for example, their location, the format of the information that they offer, the technologies on which they draw, and the types of materials that they contain. The user’s query is broadcast to each resource, and results are returned to the user.
