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metacrawler

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English

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Etymology

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From meta- +‎ crawler.

Noun

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metacrawler (plural metacrawlers)

  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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