What are the meta search engines? Examples at a glance

Meta search engines are not limited to one search engine, but send their queries to several addresses simultaneously. Our guide shows which meta search engines exist.

Effective: a meta search engine bundles the results of several search engines.

Another feature is that meta search engines do not perform their own searches. In a sense, they hover above all regular search engines (such as Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo) and help themselves to their results.

Which meta search engines are available for German users?

If you are looking for a meta service, these addresses might be of interest:

• The largest German search engine is metaGer, where privacy is guaranteed and operations run on 100 percent green power.
• Another well-known German address is MetaCrawler. The site is kept simple and offers various search options.
• The meta engine eTools.ch comes from Switzerland, but is also aimed at German or German-speaking users. It uses 15 search engines, including Google, Yahoo and Yandex.

In addition to these examples, there is a wide range of meta services with a commercial focus, especially in the shopping area with price comparisons. This means: presumably most people have already used a meta search engine without being aware of it. So it is by no means a technology that is difficult to access, but a tool that has been firmly anchored in the web for a long time.