Mamma.com is a "smart" metasearch engine —Mother Of All Search Engines

By admin at November 28, 2007 | 4:08 am | Print

About Company:
Mamma.com is metasearch engine a site owned and operated by Copernic Inc. (formerly known as Mamma.com Inc.).

How It Works:

Mamma.com is a “smart” metasearch engine — every time you type in a query Mamma simultaneously searches a variety of engines, directories, and deep content sites, properly formats the words and syntax for each, compiles their results in a virtual database, eliminates duplicates, and displays them in a uniform manner according to relevance. It’s like using multiple search engines, all at the same time.
How It Works:

What Is MetaSearch:

Every time you type in a query at a metasearch engine, they search a series of other search and content sites at the same time, compile their results, and display them either by source or by integrating them in a uniform manner, eliminating duplicates, and resorting them according to relevance. It’s like using multiple search engines, all at the same time.

By using a metasearch engine, you get a snapshot of the top results from a variety of search engines (including a variety of types of search engines), providing you with a broad scope of information. Metasearch engines are tolerant of imprecise search terms or inexact use of operators, and tend to return fewer results, but with a greater degree of relevance. They’re best used when you’ve got a general search, as metasearch engines return broad results. Instead of returning every possible result that contains your search term, metasearch will return the most trusted results on the Internet for your search. Metasearch engines also allow you to compare what kinds of results are available on different engine types (indexes, directories, pay-for-placement, etc), or to verify that you haven’t missed a great resource provided by another site, other than your favourite search engine (acting as a backup). Overall, they’re a great way to save time and find exactly what you’re looking for.
More at:http://www.mamma.com/

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