{"id":575,"date":"2019-07-17T16:37:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T14:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/?page_id=575"},"modified":"2019-08-08T16:53:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T14:53:29","slug":"1-7-2-meta-search-engines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/1-7-2-meta-search-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"1.7.2. Meta-search engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Meta-search engines<\/strong> and <strong>multi-search engines<\/strong> use search engines from several services to provide results for a search. As an advantage, they explore more resources than a single search engine does. As a disadvantage, they do not allow for either complex searches or the use of logical operators. Generally speaking, they are less developed than main search engines, which turns them into a not too promising alternative, particularly if we want to perform highly refined, specific searches. They are usually devoted to e-commerce, such as the popular website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kayak.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.kayak.com<\/a>, which searches for hotels, flights and rental car services in several search pages.<\/p>\n<p>The most popular generic meta-search engines are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogpile.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dogpile<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/searx.me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Searx<\/a>, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta-search engines and multi-search engines use search engines from several services to provide results for a search. As an advantage, they explore more resources than a single search engine does. As a disadvantage, they do not allow for either complex searches or the use of logical operators. Generally speaking, they are less developed than main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/575"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/575\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cerca-informacio.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}