About WebCrawler®


WebCrawler® brings users the top search results from Google, Yahoo!, Windows Live, Ask and other popular search engines. WebCrawler also provides multimedia results, including images, video, news, and local information. WebCrawler is a registered trademark of InfoSpace, Inc.

What you’ll find on this page:

Get Better Results, Easier
Contact Us
History
What Webcrawler® Users Are Saying

Get Better Results, Easier

WebCrawler.com utilizes metasearch technology to compile results from many of the Web's major search properties, delivering more relevant and comprehensive results every time you search. By accessing multiple search engines for each query, WebCrawler.com provides you with a richer and more relevant spectrum of results than you would from using any single search engine.

The search results you receive are a combination of the top commercial (sponsored advertising) and non-commercial (algorithmic) results from the most popular search engines on the Web. WebCrawler’s metasearch technology combines the top ranking search results from each of the separate search engines based on your specific query. The blend of sponsored and non-sponsored results for a given search term depends on the nature of the term, but sponsored results are always clearly identified with a "Sponsored" or similar designation like this:

WebCrawler.com web search is designed to identify the intent of a user's search and results are generally listed in order of relevance as they are received from the various search engine providers. The specific ranking and mixture of sponsored and non-sponsored results will depend on the nature of your search. For example, if you are searching for information about the prices of digital cameras and enter the term "digital camera prices," the results will generally include more sponsored results and include commercial Web pages containing information on the prices businesses are offering cameras for sale. If, on the other hand, you are searching for academic or general research purposes and enter the term "digital camera technology," the results will be weighted more toward articles, information and other non-commercial results about the technology behind digital cameras.

Contact Us

We welcome your feedback. However, due to the volume of mail,
not all messages will receive a response. All fields are required.





History

WebCrawler® was the first fully indexed search engine on the Web. Created by Brian Pinkerton at the University of Washington, WebCrawler joined the InfoSpace family of search products in 2001. InfoSpace also owns and operates the metasearch engines Dogpile and MetaCrawler,and provides the search results for Excite.

What Webcrawler Users Are Saying

“I always thought you were the best, now you’re even better!.” - Ryan

“My grandson introduced me to metasearch when he was in high school. I’ve been using it ever since and find that it is absolutely the best search engine on the net.” - Theresa

“I’m a heavy metasearch user (it’s my home page) and I also tell my students to use WebCrawler for their work at my high school. I like the new look - it’s much cleaner AND I think it’ll lend itself to faster downloading.” - John