Search.com - Metasearch Engine

Search.com is a metasearch engine, this means your search query is sent to several search engines at one time and the results are integrated into one list. You don't have to spend time going to each individual site to search; you can get the entire Web's top results at once from Search.com. It searches Google, Ask.com, LookSmart and dozens of other leading search engines in order to bring the best results. You can search the web; find images, videos, movie trailers, products and prices, artists, albums or lyrics. You can also browse the web thorough their directory, find and download software, search for people and search the top news sites. What’s best, you can customize your Search.com experience by visiting the preferences page. It allows you to set the following options: choose the search engines to include in your metasearch, open results in a new window, and customize colors, show thumbnails, and much more.

“Search.com is a comprehensive and easy-to-use metasearch engine that appeals to both the casual Web surfer and the advanced online researcher. Search.com uses metasearch technology to leverage the power of the best search engines on the Web and to provide users with unique, highly relevant search results. Using advanced metasearching algorithms and a variety of data sources, Search.com scours the Internet to find both popular and obscure information. If it exists on the Internet, you can find it using Search.com.”

Metasearch engines are experiencing a growing popularity. Users can have instant access to hundreds of millions of search engine listings. You can save time by not having to search multiple sites.

Search.com has entered a competitive and crowded market. Search engines of all types are popping up each day. How it will be able to compete with big name search engines like Yahoo!, Google and MSN?