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, audio, video, news, and local information. WebCrawler is a registered trademark of InfoSpace, Inc.

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The Internet is an enormous and constantly changing medium, making it impossible for any single engine to reach the entire World Wide Web. WebCrawler's metasearch technology provides an easy way to search more of the Internet by harnessing the collective power of the most popular engines.

WebCrawler makes searching the Internet effortless by delivering the best results from the leading search engines. Each of the search engines accessed by WebCrawler -- Google, Yahoo!, Ask and others -- work in different ways, and therefore, provide different results.

WebCrawler metasearch technology automatically returns the top combined results from the Web's leading search engines like Google, Yahoo! and Ask. That means you'll receive a richer and more relevant spectrum of results than you can get using any single search engine. WebCrawler takes results from the leading search engines, eliminates the duplicates and delivers you the most comprehensive set of results.

You benefit by obtaining a quicker, more accurate set of search results.

WebCrawler search custom blends and ranks the results derived from each of the separate engines based on the specific terms you type. If, for example, you type the words “digital camera prices”, the resulting search will include many commercial Web pages containing information on businesses offering cameras for sale. If, on the other hand, you type “digital camera technology”, your results will be weighted toward articles, information and other research.

As you can see, this ability of WebCrawler search to access multiple search engines and intelligently retrieve the top results based on the specific terms you type, makes it easier to search more of the Web and get better results.

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