As the web's growth rate continues to spiral upwards, researchers are in greater need of tools to help them retrieve relevant information. The meta search engine allows users to search 18 different human rights sites simultaneously or, conversely, to search one or more sites selectively. One standard search interface is used.
Results tend to be relevant, as only human rights sites are searched.
And comprehensive searches are easier to conduct. These strengths are particularly important for researchers, activists and librarians who want to identify multiple reports that document the human rights conditions in a given country or that discuss specific groups targeted for human rights violations. To use these features, a searcher must link to a site and launch a query from the original source. Knowing more about the scope of what the meta search engine actually searches would be welcome. This would help users tailor their expectations of what they can retrieve accordingly.