Both meta and multi search engines search other search engines, directories, and so on rather than their own databases. A meta search engine combines results from the search. A multi search engine displays results from each database separately.

Search Engine	Meta	Multi	Notes
AcademicIndex.net	X
AllPlus	X
Agent 55		X	German
BestSearch.com		X
bingle		X
Cacti Search	X	X
Carrot Clustering Engine	X
Clusty	X		now Yippy
CurryGuide.com	X
Dogpile	X
Draze	X
eTools.ch	X
Favitt		X
fefoo		X
FinQoo	X
FleeQ	?	?
FuzzFind	X
Gajeebo		X
Gnome	X	X
GrabAll		X
HotBot		X
iBoogie	X
Info.com	X
Infospace.com	X
Ithaki	X
Ixquick	X
jux2	X
Kartoo	X
Katapulco.com	X	X
Kedrix		X
Keotag		X
kickfly		X	visual displays
LeapFish		X
Limmz		X
MalaMata.com		X
Mamma	X
MelZoo	X
MetaBear	X		Russian
Metacca	X
MetaCrawler	X	X
metaEureka	X
MetaStrike	X
Monster Crawler	X
Myriad Search	X
Onimeta	X
Own Mine Metasearch		X
OxySearch	X
Pandia Metasearch	X
PerfectSE	X
PolyMeta	X
qksearch	X	X
QuadSearch	X
Scour	X
Search.com	X
Search.io		X
Searchmaze	X
Search3		X
SearchBoth.com		X	compares results from two search engines like Thumbshots ranking
Searchsalad		X
searchy.com		X
SniperPoint	X
Soovle		X
SortFix		X
Spezify	X
Startpage	X
Stream City	X
struly.com		X
SurfWax	X
TripleMe		X
Triplify	X
TurboScout		X
url.com	X
Viewzi	X
VROOSH!	X
WebCrawler	X
Webfetch	X
whonu.com		X
Widexplorer		X
XSEARCH Clustering	X
YOHOGO!		X
Yippy	X		was Clusty
Yooci	X
ZapMeta	X
Zuula		X
Zworks	X

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