On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:19, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 22:07:12 -0700, drwhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > howdy all... > > > > I am looking for the linux equiv. to the windows program Copernic > > its a searchbot, that searches thru google, altavista, yahoo, webcrawler, > > etc.. from one easy to use 'frontend.' ??? > > How does Copernic work? Does it send one search term to multiple engines at > once and organise the results, or does it simply allow you to pick one > engine at a time? > > If you want the former, you can use a metasearch engine. Here are a few: > > http://www.metacrawler.com/ > http://www.search.com/ > http://www.dogpile.com/ > http://www.mamma.com/ > http://webinfosearch.com/ > > If you want the latter, try http://bookmarklets.com/moreinfo.phtml. If you > use Galeon, you can use its Smart Bookmarks feature to create search boxes > on the toolbars, or its My Portal home page.
Copernic is based on your home computer and makes a request to multiple search engines from there, ie a home based metasearcher. Web Ferret is the other Windows based one i am familiar with. I find this site is worth visiting at least six monthly. http://www.searchenginewatch.com/ It maintains lists of search-engines including the lil' New Zealand ones, and explains the methods used by each and how to access them. Well worth bookmarking beside Google and Altavista -- Michael
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