MetaCrawler

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MetaCrawler® is a metasearch engine that blends the top web search results from Google, Yahoo!, Windows Live Search (formerly MSN Search), Ask.com, About.com, MIVA, LookSmart and other popular search engines. MetaCrawler also provides users the option to search for images, audio, video, news, yellow pages and white pages. MetaCrawler is a registered trademark of InfoSpace, Inc.

MetaCrawler was originally developed in 1994 at the University of Washington by then graduate student Erik Selberg and Associate Professor Oren Etzioni. It was acquired by InfoSpace, Inc. in 2000. InfoSpace also owns and operates the metasearch engines Dogpile, Webcrawler and Excite.

MetaCrawler also provides a toolbar for download, which has similar functions as Google Toolbar.