The Meta Search Engines

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Sherlock missing from Desktop Search Applications

Add Sherlock to that list - it's been in MacOS since OS8.5, launched in 1999. Plus you can produce your own plugins for it.

some more...

Inquirus from NEC research is pretty good, though experimental...
http://inquirus.nj.nec.com/?dd=2 , its a prototype service so they dont want links into it...

Snooz is pretty good Snooz

I can strongly recommend vivissimo (you mentioned that)

A little review

I like - ez2www, it's faster than I expected but I couldn't figure out what they want to do with that fonts mixed with CSS. In Opera on Linux the pixel based styles look great, why did they need to break it with relative sizes set in font elements. I also don't like IP based cloaking, why do I need to have some parts of the interface in Bulgarian?

The clustered results are nice, Vivisimo looks a bit like Google which is more intuitive for me ;-) but loads slower and frames suck.

OT: Printing user variables

I find very convenient to sporadically use print_r(); to view variable content in different parts of my code. However, I sometimes forgot to precede it with print '<pre>'; and afterwards with print '</ pre>' so that the indentation and /n that print_r(); introduces displays correctly on the browsers. I created the function print_var(); to handle such needs:

print_var($var){
	print '<pre>';
	print_r($var);
	print '</pre>';
	return;
}

With this, you only need to specify print_var($variable) to view the contents of $variable

Another suggestion for the "Pseudo" MSEs Type II SE

Please lookout another kind of Pseudo Meta Search Engine available at http://www.crispyweb.com/, it helps you search 14 top search engines by comparing 2 search engines in a frame, allows user to select search engine from the drop down list. Search Yahoo! and Google side by side also. These Pseudo meta SE type II are also called Multi search Engine.

Metacca.com Meta-Search Engine

I would like to take this opportunity to present our Meta-Search engine Metacca.com (http://www.metacca.com) that delivers the best search results from Yahoo, Google, AOL, Altavista, Alltheweb, Live, and over 75 other leading search engines in the categories of Web, Images, News, Shopping, Videos, and FTP. Kindly review it. Thanks.

Another suggestion - Babieca.com

Hi,
Please check this site: Babieca Search Engines A search engines directory, Metasearch engine and web directory. Includes a compilation of the most popular search tools.