Internet searching has traditionally been carried out through a limited amount of search engines, between the most popular ones we have: Google, MSN, Yahoo!, WiseNut and Ask.com. They all retrieve information to help people minimize the amount of time they spend finding information on the net. They are systems that use robots or automatic spiders to index registered web pages. Nowadays, a new way of searching the web has evolved, this is known as multisearch. This type of system combines human website classification and automatic tools, allowing users to perform a more in-depth and varied search. Multisearch engines allow users not only to obtain results from several websites, but goes far beyond by multi-tasking and allowing users to obtain information from one or more search engines at the same time.
Some of the most popular multisearch engines are iTools, Dogpile and Ixquick, they carry out searches between several websites and show all results in a list. They work in a similar way than more traditional search engines such as Google or MSN. However, results in the form of a list have made it hard for users to perceive a real difference between search engines and multisearch engines.
Other multisearch engines better known as simultaneous search engines such as: Wookah.com search through different websites and display in one screen the best related websites to a specific search term. This type of multisearch engine has been better accepted as it is visually more appealing and provides an easier way to browse though all results in one same site.
David Cropley is an American technical writer from Evanston, Wyoming, with a keen interest for cultural trends, brand marketing and innovative technology. Over the past 6 years, David has worked as a marketing and technology consultant on over 40 ventures throughout the USA, Southern Asia and Europe.
