What is the Difference between Search engine and meta search engine?

Re: What is the Difference between Search engine and meta search engine?

meta search engine is basically showing all of the results coming in from a lot of search engines. it is technically a lot of search engine used as one. No need for such stuff anyways since you can already get what you need with just one search engine. plus, there aren't really that much good search engine out there anymore. I'd say only few can really give you what you need.

Re: What is the Difference between Search engine and meta search engine?

Search engine usually have their own database of sites they craw and list in their database, for example Google, Yahoo, Ask.
Meta Search Engines usually do not have their own database of crawled sites, they search the databases of real search engines, usually many search engines at the same time, and provide you results. So a meta search engine will give you results from say Yahoo and Google, some meta search engines do have database of sites submitted to them. Example of a meta search engine is DogPile.