A metacrawler is
A)a highly specialized directory that focuses on a specific subject matter area.
B)a search engine that examines only newsgroup messages.
C)a type of aggregator that offers subscribers all-day information on their desktops.
D)a special type of engine that searches several search engines at once.

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D)To account for the particular biases of search engines, metacrawlers aggregate results from multiple search engines and rank their websites. The result is a search that is not biased by any one particular method of ranking and evaluating webpages.

A Metacrawler Is