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MetaCrawler is an internet search engine owned by System1. Launched in 1995, It is one of the oldest metasearch engines, a type of search engine that aggregates other search engines. MetaCrawler enables users to search for a wide variety of phrases, images, video, news, business, personal telephone directories, and audio, via other web search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask.com, About.com, MIVA, and LookSmart.
MetaCrawler is a metasearch engine, which aggregates web search results from other search engines, providing users with one portal to retrieve results from many search engines without having to search them individually. Users only need to know what they are looking for, and MetaCrawler takes care of how and where to look. Competing metasearch engines include Metager, Startpage, Dogpile, and Zoo.
MetaCrawler was launched in July 1995 at the University of Washington. It was created by Erik Selberg while earning his doctorate in computer science and engineering and by professor Oren Etzioni. In February 1997, MetaCrawler was purchased by Go2Net. In 2000, Go2Net and its MetaCrawler were purchased by InfoSpace. In 2016, System1 acquired InfoSpace.
