About Search engines

Rodrigo Senra rodsenra at correionet.com.br
Sat Dec 9 08:40:16 EST 2000


Tim May wrote:
> 
> Don't be misled by this claim. While it is claimed that Metacrawler
> searches N different other search engines, it often (usually) returns
> fewer results than Google does.

> In any case, the moral is to try many different engines...

I recommend trying HuskySearch (http://huskysearch.cs.washington.edu) 

It uses different search engines
(including google) with a smart result combination strategy.
HTH
Rod


BTW, I know this is not related to Pyhton. But since the issue
came up in the thread 'simmulated annealing' in this list, I
thought this info would benefit the majority.

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Rodrigo Senra         
Computer Engineer   (GPr Sistemas Ltda)  rodsenra at correionet.com.br 
MSc Student of Reflection (IC- UNICAMP) Rodrigo.Senra at ic.unicamp.br
http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~921234 (see also   http://www.gpr.com.br)





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