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What is Metasearch? |
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What are the different sections on the Search results page? |
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What is Website Match? |
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What is Advanced Search? |
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What is the Preferences section? |
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How do I search within results or refine my search? |
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How do I filter out Adult Content from my searches? |
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How can I improve my search accuracy when looking for images, video or news
results? |
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What is IntelliFind™? |
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How does IntelliFind™ work? |
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What does the Recent Searches feature do? |
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Can anyone else access my Recent Searches information? |
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Can I change the number of keywords stored in my Recent Searches area? |
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Can I turn off the Recent Searches feature? |
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Does metaCrawler include paid listings with their search results? |
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Q: What is Metasearch?
A: The short answer is that metasearch searches more engines, allowing better
coverage of the Web, and therefore providing better overall results to the user.
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Q: What are the different sections on the
Search results page?
A: Here is a look at the various pieces of a MetaCrawler results page, where
each component is located and a brief description of what each piece does:
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A. Web Search Box - The area where you enter your search
term. Enter your keyword(s) and hit the Search button to retrieve your results.
B. Search Button - The button you press to search for results.
C. Category Links - Links to help you focus your search on specific categories
like News, etc.
D. Yellow Pages - Allows you to do a search using the Yellow Pages.
E. White Pages - Allows you to do a search using the White Pages.
F. Advanced Search - Links to the Advanced Search options page where you
can set specific filters for a one-time search.
G. Preferences - Links to a page where you can set a variety of customized
search preferences.
H. Are You Looking For? - Offers suggested spellings for words that may be
misspelled and other search keywords that seem to be related to your original search
term.
I. Recent Searches - Keeps track of your 15 most recent searches.
J. IntelliFind™ - Displays the most likely results for your search based
on an exclusive collection of search data and analysis.
K. Statistics Bar - Shows how many results were returned for your search
term.
L. Website Match - Identifies when a Website address (URL) matches your search
term.
M. Comparison View - Displays results from the individual search engine(s)
of your choice and highlights unique results to that engine.
N. Spelling Correction - Offers suggested spellings for words that may be
misspelled and automatically corrects commonly misspelled keywords.
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Q: What is Website Match?
A: Website Match identifies when a Website address (URL) matches your search
term. For example, a search for "Sears" would be matched with
www.sears.com, or a search for "American Airlines" would return
www.aa.com as the Website Match.
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Q: What is Advanced Search?
A: The Advanced
Search page allows you to set advanced filters and other settings for one
specific search. These settings are reset after each search.
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Q: What is the Preferences section?
A: The Preferences
section allows you to customize MetaCrawler to search based on your preferences.
These settings remain in place until you change them.
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Q: How do I search within results or refine
my search?
A: MetaCrawler gives you the opportunity to search within results for greater
accuracy. When you enter a search, MetaCrawler automatically organizes results into
categories based on words and phrases contained in the results.
For example, if you searched the term "insurance", MetaCrawler would sort the results
into various insurance categories, like Home, Auto, Fire, Health, etc. under the
Refine Your Results heading on the left side of the results page. By clicking on
any of the category links there, you would then view the results for that specific
category.
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Q: How do I filter out Adult Content from
my searches?
A: Adult content can be filtered from your Web search results, by changing your
Preferences settings. To do so, go to the
Preferences page, select Filter On from the drop-down menu in the
Adult Filter section and click Save Settings. Once you have set the
filter to On, it will remain on until you change your settings. Results for
filtered searches are only provided by partners who provide filtered results.
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Q: How can I improve my search accuracy
when looking for images, video or news results?
A: You can search for these specific categories of results by clicking on the
corresponding radio buttons at the top of the search page. Also note that you can
refine your search within each category by using the Advanced Search option. For
an image search, for example, you can filter for specific image color, size or format.
Video searches can be filtered by playtime or file format. And news searches
can be filtered by news category, location, date or source.
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Q: What is IntelliFind™?
A: IntelliFind™ is additional search content that MetaCrawler has identified
as being relevant to your search term. The purpose of this content is to help you
find your answers and results more quickly. The related content area will be displayed
in the area above your search results.
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Q: How does IntelliFind™ work?
A: The IntelliFind™ area will be displayed every time additional content
is found that is related to your original search term. For example: Let's
say you searched on the term Madonna. The results page would show links to
related News, Video and Image content matched to your original Madonna
search. Clicking any of these links would take you to that specific content, for
instance clicking on Video would take you to the results page for Madonna
Video files.
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Q: What does the Recent Searches feature
do?
A: The Recent Searches area allows you to view your previous search terms and
then click to retrieve past results quickly without having to re-enter in your search
terms into the search box. Just click any link in your Recent Searches area to see
the results for your last ten searches.
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Q: Can anyone else access my Recent Searches
information?
A: No, not from another computer. The information for these searches is stored
for a limited period of time while you have your browser open. Once you close your
browser, your recent searches list will be cleared.
Please note that no personal information is saved or shared at any time.
Read the complete Infospace privacy policy.
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Q: Can I change the number of keywords
stored in my Recent Searches area?
A: No, the number of keywords is consistently set at 15 at this time.
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Q: Can I turn off the Recent Searches feature?
A: Yes. Go to your
Preferences page and de-select Display on checkbox in the Recent Searches
area.
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Q: Does MetaCrawler include paid listings with their search results?
A: Yes. MetaCrawler's results include sponsored (paid) listings for some
keywords. Results are always listed in order of relevance, so if a sponsored listing
is thought to be a good match for your search, it will be returned. Sponsored listings
are always clearly marked with a "Sponsored" label or similar designation to make
it clear when a sponsored result is being returned.
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