Ask Jeeves lets you enter natural-language queries. It's super for search rookies, and Ask Jeeves for Kids is one of the best places to send pint-sized fact finders. The server is slow sometimes, though. Find-It puts multiple engines at your disposal but doesn't search them simultaneously. But because it doesn't allow for phrases, hits can be far off the mark.
Mamma searches seven sites simultaneously.
It does a nice job of combining the results and reordering them using its own relevancy ratings. MetaCrawler is our No. 2 pick for metasearchers. It collates pages found from a slew of sites, plus offers the winning MiniCrawler, which performs searches in a discreet window on the desktop. ProFusion hands over control of Boolean operators for nine search sites. While it does conduct simultaneous searches, results are only average.