This looks quite an interesting resource.
Matthew Dovey
Libraries Automation Service
Oxford University
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Winship, Univ. Northumbria [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 21 April 1998 11:01
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Mamma meta search service
>
>
> Mamma, the 'mother of all search engines' is a meta search
> service covering
> Alta Vista, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, WebCrawler and Yahoo.
> Search options
> include limiting to sound, pictures or MP3 files.
>
> Its at http://www.mamma.com
>
>
> 'Mamma offers simultaneous coverage of the major search
> engines in one simple
> query. Mamma analyses your queries and properly formats the
> words and syntax
> for each source it probes. So you no longer have to
> remember the syntax for
> each search engine. Mamma will then organize the results
> into a uniform
> format, and presents them by relevance and source.
>
> Mamma will also allow users to use any type of search
> syntax so you don't
> need to learn a special syntax. Moreover, Mamma can include
> special syntax
> by itself for queries that are not correct'.
>
>
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