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For finding used books I recommend the very useful bookseller meta-search site bookfinder. com, which has made my late-to-the-party collecting much easier.
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For one thing, online travel agencies such as Expedia have toll-free numbers with agents standing by to help you book or re-book a flight; meta-search sites don't.
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Mary Ellen Bates describes her use of the Carrot Clustering Engine which will cluster search results obtained from the meta-search engine, eTools. ch.
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Widexplorer is a meta-search engine that uses the services of other searching devices such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live Search, Yahoo Buzz, YouTube, DailyMotion and others to do the search work.
October 2008 2008
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New BitTorrent search engine PizzaTorrent is a meta-search engine that scours the most popular public torrent trackers and sorts the results by the health of the torrent.
Get Quick, Aggregated BitTorrent Results at PizzaTorrent | Lifehacker Australia 2008
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Widexplorer is a meta-search engine that uses the services of other searching devices such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live Search, Yahoo Buzz, YouTube, DailyMotion and others to do the search work.
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The HEPL system also has a meta-search engine, allowing it to simultaneously search multiple sites set up by CNN, Google and the International Red Cross.
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Actually, Viewzi is not a search engine but a meta-search engine, utilizing the sleuthing power of Google, Yahoo and other web services to do the actual searching.
October 2008 2008
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Kayak, based in Norwalk, Conn., is a travel meta-search engine that gathers flight and fare information and then directs its users to online travel agencies and airline websites to make their ticket purchases.
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Actually, Viewzi is not a search engine but a meta-search engine, utilizing the sleuthing power of Google, Yahoo and other web services to do the actual searching.
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