There's another "Meta-search" engine, called Metacrawler, at:
http://metacrawler.cs.washington.edu:8080/index.html
I've used both Inference and Metacrawler, and they work in similar ways,
by feeding a key-word search into other Web search engines.
Each is about as fast as the other (at least from this side of the
world). The advantage of Inference is that it groups results by site,
giving a sort of classified arrangement, which is often useful. The
advantage of Metacrawler is that it gives you more details for each hit
on the list. (Inference usually gives only three or four words, while
Metacrawler gives three or four lines for each hit on the list.
Giles
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On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Simon Buckingham Shum wrote:
> Youi the search-engines topic, you may also want to check out what may be
> the next step in search engines, which piggy backs on existing ones and
> sorts their results in semi-intelligent ways:
>
> http://m5.inference.com/ifind/
>
> It's a modestly smart 'meta-search' tool... picks up ALL the results of the
> six hottest search engines (AltaVista, Lycos, etc and (unlike other
> meta-search tools) clusters the results, removes duplicates, etc. Very fast
> & very useful. Home is www.inference.com
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