Ant wrote:
Or only one search engine at a time?
Thank you for reading and hopefully answering. :)
I think only one engine at a time. It's not just a matter of submitting
queries (and there are different syntaxes for different engines), but
also a matter of how results are delivered, especially ordering.
Seamonkey doesn't have that kind of capacity.
There is something to be said for querying multiple engines
simultaneously, rather than just throwing everything at Google and
accepting their results. Google may be the most thorough, but other
spiders do get stuff that Google misses.
For what you're looking for, you want to be querying a metasearch
engine, which queries multiple engines, and then does the work of
aggregating and ordering results. There's a number out there. One I can
remember that does this is Dogpile, but there's others as well.
This is where there used to be difference between ixquick.com and
startpage.com (both run by the same operator). Ixquick used to be a
metaengine, and startpage is a proxy that queries Google. However, a
couple of years back, they shut down ixquick, and any accesses to
ixquick.com now are redirected to startpage.com.
Smith
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