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Metacrawler: Free Sex Cheat Codes

by psugrowler Epinions Most Popular Authors - Top 500, Nov 09 '00
Pros: Custom search, custom search engine
Cons: N/A
Metacrawler reeks of panache. What more can be said of a search engine that lets you tweak custom colors and toggle objectionable searches through an adult channel? Metacrawler launches a full on assault on your search queries with a plethora of...
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Metacrawler combines 9 search engines into one

by wikid , Dec 18 '02
The thing I like best about Metacrawler is that it uses nine of the top search engines on the web to find results. These search engines include Google, Looksmart,Inktomi, Ask Jeeves, About, Overture, FindWhat, FAST, and Teoma. Why use a single search...
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MetaCrawler -- What have you done for me lately?

by bhweb22 Epinions Most Popular Authors - Top 500, Mar 16 '01
Pros: searches all the major engines at once.
Cons: nothing here that google doesn't do better
Metacrawler is a good meta search tool.

But it's another great example of what happens to a company or site that tries to be too much to too many people.

It started out as a grad student project at the University of Washington - the...
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Metacrawler is the best search engine

by beckytcy Epinions Most Popular Authors - Top 500, Jan 01 '01
Pros: choice of "and/or" or "phrase", effective, fast
Cons: not good for image/mp3 search
Metacrawler is the best search engine out there because it combines several search engines in one for a very efficient and accurate search. It gives you the option of searching for "any" of the words, "all" of them, or as a...
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Meta is beta!!!

by sohailg , Aug 25 '00
Pros: Many options, precise results
Cons: New MP3, audio, and video search


MetaCrawler. What does that bring to mind? A good search with many options, or a bad search with minimal compatibility? Hmm...Let's stick with the good search with many options. MetaCrawler has been around for over 5 years now...
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Best I've Tried Yet

by WoodenNickel , Oct 14 '00
Pros: Easy to use; better than most search engines
Cons: No non-adult content search feature.
Out of all of the search engines I have tried, I have only found one that has really actually please me every time. Metacrawler is definitely number one in my book.

Metacrawler is much like all of the other search engines. You type in the...
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Metacrawler.com Can Be Used, But "Caveat Emptor"

by neomartin , Aug 03 '01
Pros: Pleasing layout; many options
Cons: For all its options, it failed me in its main purpose-- search many search engines
While we tend to use one or two search engines out of habit, and we may know that some search engines are better for certain types of searches than others, there are times when we want to search the search engines for what we need. It's at times like...
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Multitasking Information Demon

by anecdoter , Oct 18 '00
Pros: Fast, reliable, comprehensive
Cons: some search engines time out
While the web might appear to be a quagmire of contradictory information, there are several slabs of solid ground for users to walk on; developed as a powerful parallel search engine, Metacrawler quickly rearranges chaos into order.

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All in one!

by Gooz543 , Sep 16 '00
Pros: searches all major search engines, has MetaSpy, suggests keywords
Cons: doesn't have all the search engines (but how much more could you expect?!)
I used to use only specific search engines, such as yahoo or excite. One day, however, my friend informed me that metacrawler is much better. Metacrawler is a compilation of search engines, to maximize your findings. This is especially helpful when...
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The Best One Out There

by Goldentoe , Aug 10 '00
Pros: It's Accurate, Simple to Understand, Searchs other engines
Cons: None that I can see
I discovered this web service when I was still in high-school, my band teacher showed it to me and the idea of searching several websites at one time sounded great. Back in the day this site still had some problems, it often took up to a minute to...
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Metacrawler

by apoeze , Apr 24 '01
Pros: Fast, accurate, easy to use
Cons: Poor non-U.S. searching.
Background
I have used the internet heavily now for many years.

Who it Suits and does not Suit
It suits most users looking for specific often hard-to-find information rapidly.

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Meta Means "Beyond And More Comprehensive"

by virt , Aug 19 '00
Pros: Many Features In One Place
Cons: Limited Results From Other Engines
That is exactly what Metacrawler is and does. It goes beyond the common list of sites that the others provide, instead offering you the top searches from some of the top search engines on the Internet - all in one simple search. Simply doing a search...
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Even since early beta days!

by endurance , Aug 10 '00
Pros: Fast, Easy, Accurate
Cons: Advertisements.. but hey gotta make money somehow!
I have been a long time user of Metacrawler, since the early days when it was still in testing, it has definately come a long way!

So far Metacrawler is still my first choice for more acurate searching, it searches several web search engines...
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Search the Search Engines!

by Burnout , Aug 25 '00
Pros: Almost always pulls up what I need, even with an odd request. Gets only the top hits.
Cons: Few search hits.
Metacrawler is an odd search engine. Instead of building their own directory of web pages, Metacrawler just searches other search engine, pulls up the most likely webpages and gives them to you. Rarely will you see more than 100 hits [I searched for...
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While I'm here....

by pelirojo18 Epinions Most Popular Authors - Top 1000, Nov 14 '00
Pros: speed, accuracy, custom features
Cons: none that i foresee
FOr some reason i am in the opinion writing mood today regarding search engines. FOr someone who attempts, usually in vain, to do all his work from the comfort of his computer, i must say that this is an important arena for me.....and what better way to...
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Turbocharged Search EngineB>

by WRC123 , Nov 02 '00
Pros: Good interface, thorough searches
Cons: None
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I was once a Yahoo person. I had absolutely no idea about the plethora of other search engines out on the web. Then, one day when I was searching for information needed for a school project, another student...
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Why search 5, Just search ONE...

by jbhut , Mar 16 '01
Pros: Searches many directories to combine all websites out there.
Cons: Has some advertising.
This was the first search engine I ever used when I first came to the Internet. It found hundreds of links on the topics I was looking up. The only problem was that there were hundreds of them. It seems to give about a 50% rate of accuracy, so out of 10...
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Impress your boss

by OO7Dolphins , Oct 13 '00
Pros: No more searching multiple engines...
Cons: Sometimes still too many results..
Metacrawler searches and cross references the results for you. You get the result once and a link to all engines it was found in, so all the time of sorting through the same results in different engines is saved. Google and Dogpile are great but if you...
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Why search one search engine when you can search them all!

by firebird1 , Sep 22 '00
Pros: Usually fast service.
Cons: Sometime slow but not often.
During my time in college I was a Math major, a Chemistry major, and finally a History major. During the entire time I used Metacrawler to help me find the sites I needed to do my research.

Now that I have graduated and am coming back to get...
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The Mother of All Search Engines!

by CyberWriter , May 23 '01
Pros: Brings back exactly what you're looking for.
Cons: Takes a little bit of time to load results.
Metacrawler has got to be the Big Mama of them all,
When it comes to search engines on the Internet!
Especially if you want to find something specific on the net,
This search engine does the job.

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Almost Perfect

by EvanSM , Aug 10 '00
Pros: Vastness,Widespread Accessability
Cons: Organization
Metacrawler is undoubtedly one of the best search engines available on the internet. It's most beneficial feature, and most unique, is how it doesn't simply search one database for information, but instead searches several at one time. When a person...
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Metacrawler makes the cut - and then some

by TheKestrel , Aug 11 '00
Pros: Easy, Helpful
Cons: none
Recently, I was doing a search on Yahoo.com, and I was upset with the results, or more specifically, the lack thereof. What I was looking for simply wasn't there. My friend walked in the room, saw that I was using Yahoo, and pooh-poohed me. He then...
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My One and Only (Mostly!!)

by cupdeville , Nov 27 '00
Pros: easy and accurate
Cons: none that I can think of?
I like Metacrawler. It is the only search engine that I have bookmarked. I do not get too many results, and oftentimes, the results I do get point me towards a better search query that points me directly where I want to go.
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Just try and search for a better engine!

by davebennetts , Oct 11 '00
Pros: Uncluttered format, effective.
Cons: Limited results, but who needs to fish through 200 results
Metacrawler can't be beat. Reading up on its history and how it works, you'll find that it uses superior methods to get you what you're looking for. Once you try it, you'll be hooked. It doesn't give you too much commercial junk, like Yahoo or the...
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The best search engine out there

by bigbgk23 , Oct 20 '00
Pros: Excellent search capabilities, excellent advanced search options
Cons: occasional dead sites, depending on how advanced you search is it may be a bit slow
Once you use Metacrawler you will never stop. It does not replace other search engines, it uses them! It has several advanced search capabilities, including some simple selections on the main page. There are some dead sites, but for the most part the...
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Great search

by jtoleric , Nov 17 '00
Pros: Great results, many topics
Cons: none
Metacrawler is THE best search engine on the internet today. I haven't really scoured the internet for great search engines, but I have been to yahoo, excite, aol, compuserve, altavista, google, and many more, but metacrawler is THE best. Metacrawler...
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Great Meta Search

by phynix1bmw , Aug 18 '00
Pros: fast and accurate
Cons: none
Metacrawler is a great search engine that uses meta tags. They can use a word, a phrase, or even all of what you type in the field for keywords. They gather information from many of the top 40 search engines. Many with names like: About, Alta Vista,...
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Meta rocks all basic search engines

by dupontrocks , Sep 07 '00
Pros: broad wide search turns up more links then anybody else
Cons: long lists are hard to look through
If you are looking for a magazine site, or any specific company that you know exists and yahoo failed to find it then Metacrawler is the place to go. Metacrawler searches borrow the search capablilites of alta-vista, yahoo, webcrawler and many others...
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Utility search engine.

by mandhir , Feb 08 '01
Pros: It is very fast compare to other search engines.
Cons: Nothing as such.
www.metacrawler.com is a dependable search engine when it come to searching for specific information in the cyber media. It is also very fast compare to other available search engines. Metacrawler never let me down for almost a year now.

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The only search engine I use.

by sonneeko , May 03 '03
Metacrawler has never let me down yet; in a nutshell, if Metacrawler can't find what I'm looking for on the Internet, nothing can. It not only searches for the information you want itself, it also sends your request to several other search engines. It...
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