metacrawler
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
metacrawler (plural metacrawlers)
- (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.
References[edit]
- JAVA Network Programming & Distributed Computing, David & Michael Reilly, Addison Wesley, published 2002-03-25, p. 222, NOTE