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The rapid
growth of the World Wide Web has led to an explosion in the number of
available search engines. Users do not have the time to evaluate multiple
search engines and select the engine best suited for their uses. Nor, do
users have the time to submit each query to multiple search engines and
wade through the resulting flood of good information, duplicated
information, irrelevant information, and missing documents. A meta-search
engine sends user queries to multiple search engines simultaneously, then retrieves
and merges the resulting URLs, thus giving the user the broadest search
results.
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