Metacrawler
Updated: 10/30/2017 by Computer Hope
A metacrawler may refer to any of the following:
1. MetaCrawler, now known as Zoo.com, is a metasearch engine created in 1994 at the University of Washington by Erik Selberg and Professor Oren Etzioni. It provided users with the option to search news, videos, images, white pages, and yellow pages. MetaCrawler blended data from many of the top search engines including Yahoo!, Google, Bing, Ask.com, About.com and others.
2. An Internet spider is sometimes called a metacrawler.