metacrawler

English

Etymology

meta- +‎ crawler

Noun

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.

References

• JAVA Network Programming & Distributed Computing, David & Michael Reilly, Addison Wesley, published 2002-03-25, p. 222, NOTE