Metacca

Internet Research Project


Name of and link to the tool: Metacca

Summary or description of the tool:

Metacca is a Meta search tool. A Meta search engine acts a sort of online dispatcher that send out a virtual all points bulletin for your query. This inquiry reaches over 100 popular and invisible or deep web sources, and is indexed into categories such as, Web, Images, News, Shopping, Videos and FTP. It reduces redundancy by removing duplicate links. It only shows the top ten results from each source queried. If a site does not respond in the allotted time, it is eliminated. According to Metacca’s about page, their “wide selection of both semantic and non-semantic search engines ensures that the final result presented is more relevant and ordered.”

Strengths: Metacca’s simultaneous search is a time saver. One is relieved of the task of querying numerous sites manually, one at a time.

Weaknesses:

Search engines, directories, and other applications searched:
A9
Altavista Atw Dmoz
Yahoo Live About
Aol Entireweb Gigablast
Walhello Wisenut Alexa
Mojeek Visvo Wikia
Hakia Googleads Googlenew
Rpilotppc Bing


Databases: 100 +
Operators:
Case sensitivity: no
Stop words:
Advanced search function: yes
Limits
Sorting: relavance
Display: Simple HTML
Help function: no
Special features: category by source or media type

My search for “gullah wars” produced 109 results, of which about 50% were relevant.