Conducting Simple Searches of the Web

Searching MetaCrawler: Step 2

When you click on the Search button on its main page, MetaCrawler conducts a search of the Web pages it has catalogued and displays the results on a new page. You should see the following items on the search results page:

• The MetaCrawler Search box, customized to allow you to refine your search with related keywords
• Some ads, from which MetaCrawler obtains the funding to offer its services to you at no charge
• A list of featured sites and matching Web sites from various search engines, including an indication of how many sites were found
• A button at the end of the list of Web sites allowing you to see the next page of results

Viewing the Results of Your Search: You can click on an individual Web page in the list of search results and visit that page. Or you can scroll through the list to see which sites appear to be most promising. MetaCrawler provides descriptions of the Web sites it has catalogued.

MetaCrawler groups its search results in "pages" of 20 entries each. You can move from page to page by clicking on the Previous and Next buttons.

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