Metacrawler

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An application that searches the Web using existing search engines. Internet

    "[…] searched the Web by harnessing existing search engines. These types of applications are called metacrawlers, and are a useful way of aggregating results from many search engine databases."

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"[…] searched the Web by harnessing existing search engines. These types of applications are called metacrawlers, and are a useful way of aggregating results from many search engine databases."

Etymology

From meta- + crawler.

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search engine

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