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Fossick Meta Search (FMS) offers one of the most intelligent and advanced meta search engines available on the net today. FMS provides fast searches of the entire Net, or country-specific searches for more than 32 individual countries. Fossick translates your search request then queries ALL relevant search engines intelligently for you. It then processes the results and presents you with the best possible sites. Fossick considers word-density, resource-popularity and reliability of the resource by performing an additional soft ranking on results. As a result, Fossick tends to produce better results with more accuracy. Fossick employs a dynamic trace-routing mechanism to pre-select major engines that are currently reachable with minimum wait-period. Currently listed engines include Altavista, Excite, Infoseek, HotBot, Lycos, NorthernLight and Webcrawler. This list may change dynamically depending on Net-traffic, the load on a particular engine and the time it takes to serve the query. Fossick.com also offers the WebSearch Alliance Directory which is a selective collection of over 1,500 specialized search engines and topical guides. There is no help page and no way to submit sites to Fossick. Fossick.com welcomes suggestions of sites to include in the Fossick WebSearch Alliance Directory.

(Last updated 10/11/02)