Search with a metasearch engine, a metasearcher or even a meta search?

oneseek® has changed again due to new data protection regulations (DSGVO). That's true, and as I've written and mentioned many times, I've been running the

Metasearch Engine

or the

Metasucher

oneseek® since 2004.

During this time, I have always had to fight with more or less large or small changes to the "big" search engines. Sometimes a service was discontinued, sometimes a connection was changed, sometimes data protection regulations fundamentally changed etc. and so on.

Since I work full time as a street master and subject teacher at a vocational school and I certainly do not always have time to constantly tinkering with this page, I have decided to use the metasearch engine or the Metasucher on the core function "namely Searching websites".

The Internet user or user of today expected after typing his search term or search query in the search slot of a metasearch engine, as soon as possible, an accurate result and, of course, free of charge.

oneseek® as a metasearch engine or metasearcher in its old form could only rarely meet these high demands, especially when searching the internet, which ultimately makes me, as a webmaster, also sorry.

So I've reduced the overall look and feel of oneseek® to a minimum, but I'm sure you'll find what you're looking for.

What exactly is a metasearch engine and what should a meta-searcher do for me on the internet?

The search results could now be processed by the metasearch engine or the Metasucher and finally made available to the searcher (user) on the search results page.

While you normally have to call every single large search engine and type your search query into the search slot, a metasearch engine or metasearcher will do it for you in one go.

You save time by using a metasearch engine or a metasearcher (simultaneous query of information on several major search engines)! Unfortunately, I do not know whether you save money with our metasearch engine ;-)

The terms metasearch, meta-seeker and metasearch engine have become commonplace in linguistic usage, but the bottom line is one and the same.

I would like to try another metasearch engine or metasearcher, where can I find these?

You can find a nice listing of still working meta searchers, with which you can search the web, under the domain | Metasuchmaschine.org | and under dmoztools.net in the category | Metasucher | , where among others oneseek® is also represented ;-)

Metasearch engine or metasearcher oneseek®? What should oneseek® actually be?

oneseek® is today a metasearch engine or metasearcher, with which the seeker or also interested in the data of Google, Wikipedia and the oneseek® - Directory accesses and this gets shown after the search process as a result page.

The metasearch engine or metasearcher oneseek® Nevertheless, his directory should enable a successful search for information on the Internet. It should be noted at this point that the results pages are located on the servers at Google (except oneseek® directory).

Thus, we have no influence on the results provided by Google with our metasearch engine or Metasucher.

Search engines and a little look back.

If you look back, especially with regard to the topic of search engines, a few years back, there were quite a lot of lucky knights who wanted to do the same to today's industry leader Google. Many have disappeared over the years, are represented as net corpses on the Internet or were taken over by other companies, which in the end did not do any better than the founders themselves. Most companies probably had a hard time breaking down the DotCom bubble in the year 2000/2001.

To name a few, of course, is Yahoo, a search engine that was initially launched as a web catalog in 1994 and today has a market share of only 9.26 percent worldwide (0.8 percent in Germany). Furthermore, Altavista should not go unmentioned. Altavista was a search service, which was launched in 1995 and was finally discontinued in 2013. Meanwhile, all searches are redirected from Altavista via Yahoo.

If you go specifically to the German market, surely Fireball should not go unmentioned here. Fireball is a still active German search engine, which started 1996 under the name Flipper, later Kitty and 1997 under the name Fireball. Fireball was taken over by Lycos Europa in 1999/2000 and recorded just 0.3 percent market share in Germany in 2005. After several changes of ownership, the Munich-based company now resides as an anonymous search engine and makes it possible to search the web, images, videos, news, city maps and products.

Could not I just search Google with the search engine?

Of course, you could search with this search engine, but since you are already there, I am all the more pleased when you search for information with a metasearch and our little one

Metasearch Engine

or to use Metasucher to search on the Internet.

I'm more than sure that by finding a meta-search with our metasearch engine or metasearchers, you will finally find what you are looking for on the net and would currently find in a large search engine.

Thank you for being here, performing a current meta-search, and using our meta search engine or our metasearcher oneseek® search for information.

With best regards from Jettingen-Scheppach
Jan Hartmann, webmaster and administrator