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metasearch (countable and uncountable, plural metasearches) (computing, Internet)
- A search technology that uses the results from a number of traditional search engines.
2008 June 28, Michelle Higgins, “Spate of Changes in Airline Industry Heightens the Need to Plan Ahead”, in New York Times[1]:
You can also use a metasearch site like Kayak.com to get a snapshot of available flight alternatives.
- An individual search operation of this kind.
metasearch (third-person singular simple present metasearches, present participle metasearching, simple past and past participle metasearched)
- To perform a search of this kind.