Conducting Electronic Research

A Meta search is a simultaneous search of a number of directories or search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, MSN Search and Ask.com. They are conducted in the same way as a simple or an advanced search, just more than one at a time. In other words they are keyword driven. Here is a short list of Meta search sites:

• Dogpile
• Mamma
• Search.com
• ixquick
• Metacrawler
• SurfWax
• Kartoo
• Vivisimo

View a demonstration of a meta search using Dogpile