metacrawler

noun

metacrawler

noun

Etymology From meta- + crawler.

1

Internet An application that searches the Web using existing search engines.

  • […] searched the Web by harnessing existing search engines. These types of applications are called metacrawlers, and are a useful way of aggregating results from many search engine databases.

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