Assignment (Meta Services)

Meta-services

Is known as meta search engine as well.

Is component of the world wide web, in business-to-business and business-to-consumer transactions (for example, for flight booking systems).

In a meta-search engine, you submit keywords in its search box, and it transmits your search simultaneously to several individual search engines and their databases of web pages. Within a few seconds, you get back results from all the search engines queried. Meta-search engines do not own a database of Web pages; they send your search terms to the databases maintained by search engine companies

Source:

http://genomebiology.com/2008/9/S2/S6 (read: background after [4])

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/MetaSearch.html