<s>
MetaCrawler	B-Application
is	O
a	O
search	B-Application
engine	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
originally	O
a	O
metasearch	B-Application
engine	I-Application
,	O
as	O
its	O
name	O
suggests	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Throughout	O
its	O
lifetime	O
it	O
combined	O
web	B-Application
search	I-Application
results	O
from	O
sources	O
including	O
Google	B-Application
,	O
Yahoo	O
!,	O
Bing	B-Application
(	O
formerly	O
Live	B-Application
Search	I-Application
)	O
,	O
Ask.com,	O
About.com,	O
MIVA	O
,	O
LookSmart	O
and	O
other	O
search	B-Application
engine	I-Application
programs	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MetaCrawler	B-Application
also	O
provided	O
users	O
the	O
option	O
to	O
search	O
for	O
images	O
,	O
video	O
,	O
news	O
,	O
business	O
and	O
personal	O
telephone	O
directories	O
,	O
and	O
for	O
a	O
while	O
even	O
audio	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MetaCrawler	B-Application
was	O
originally	O
developed	O
in	O
1994	O
at	O
the	O
University	O
of	O
Washington	O
by	O
graduate	O
student	O
Erik	O
Selberg	O
and	O
Professor	O
Oren	O
Etzioni	O
as	O
Erik	O
Selberg	O
's	O
Ph.D.	O
qualifying	O
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Originally	O
,	O
it	O
was	O
created	O
in	O
order	O
to	O
provide	O
a	O
reliable	O
abstraction	O
layer	O
to	O
web	B-Application
search	I-Application
engine	I-Application
programs	O
in	O
order	O
to	O
study	O
semantic	O
structure	O
on	O
the	O
World	O
Wide	O
Web	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MetaCrawler	B-Application
was	O
not	O
,	O
however	O
,	O
the	O
first	O
metasearch	B-Application
engine	I-Application
on	O
the	O
World	O
Wide	O
Web	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
That	O
feat	O
belongs	O
to	O
SavvySearch	O
,	O
developed	O
at	O
the	O
Colorado	O
State	O
University	O
,	O
albeit	O
launched	O
just	O
four	O
months	O
prior	O
to	O
MetaCrawler	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
MetaCrawler	B-Application
was	O
originally	O
operating	O
on	O
four	O
Digital	O
Equipment	O
Corporation	O
AlphaStations	B-Device
and	O
processing	O
several	O
hundred	O
thousand	O
queries	O
per	O
day	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
became	O
clear	O
that	O
MetaCrawler	B-Application
needed	O
to	O
have	O
some	O
method	O
of	O
paying	O
for	O
the	O
queries	O
it	O
was	O
forwarding	O
to	O
the	O
primary	O
search	B-Application
engines	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Some	O
time	O
after	O
the	O
search	B-Application
engine	I-Application
launched	O
,	O
NetBot	O
,	O
Inc.	O
,	O
which	O
was	O
cofounded	O
by	O
Etzioni	O
,	O
was	O
initiated	O
to	O
commercialize	O
MetaCrawler	B-Application
and	O
three	O
other	O
UW	O
programs	O
:	O
Ahoy	O
!	O
</s>
<s>
NetBot	O
then	O
combined	O
the	O
core	O
of	O
MetaCrawler	B-Application
with	O
ShopBot	O
to	O
create	O
a	O
meta-shopping	O
website	O
,	O
Jango	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MetaCrawler	B-Application
launched	O
on	O
July	O
7	O
,	O
1995	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
of	O
late	O
1995	O
,	O
MetaCrawler	B-Application
logged	O
over	O
7,000	O
search	O
queries	O
per	O
week	O
,	O
and	O
accessed	O
six	O
services	O
:	O
Galaxy	O
,	O
InfoSeek	O
,	O
Lycos	B-Application
,	O
Open	O
Text	O
,	O
WebCrawler	B-Application
and	O
Yahoo	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
MetaCrawler	B-Application
's	O
owners	O
were	O
unable	O
to	O
determine	O
a	O
reasonable	O
business	O
model	O
,	O
so	O
in	O
January	O
1997	O
they	O
sold	O
it	O
to	O
another	O
Internet	O
startup	O
company	O
,	O
Go2Net	O
,	O
in	O
which	O
Microsoft	O
co-founder	O
Paul	O
Allen	O
later	O
invested	O
a	O
54	O
percent	O
stake	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MetaCrawler	B-Application
had	O
about	O
30,000	O
daily	O
visitors	O
at	O
the	O
start	O
of	O
1997	O
,	O
but	O
by	O
mid	O
1998	O
jumped	O
to	O
275,000	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
NetBot	O
would	O
eventually	O
be	O
purchased	O
by	O
Excite	B-Application
in	O
October	O
1997	O
for	O
$35	O
million	O
,	O
where	O
Jango	O
became	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
Excite	B-Application
Network	O
Shopping	O
Channel	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
By	O
that	O
time	O
,	O
Go2Net	O
had	O
purchased	O
another	O
metasearch	B-Application
engine	I-Application
,	O
Dogpile	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2014	O
,	O
MetaCrawler	B-Application
was	O
merged	O
into	O
another	O
one	O
of	O
InfoSpace	O
's	O
search	B-Application
engines	I-Application
,	O
Zoo.com,	O
which	O
was	O
originally	O
launched	O
in	O
2006	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
MetaCrawler	B-Application
domain	O
at	O
first	O
redirected	O
to	O
Zoo.com,	O
but	O
was	O
afterwards	O
changed	O
to	O
redirect	O
to	O
msxml.excite.com,	O
the	O
search	O
page	O
for	O
Excite	B-Application
,	O
also	O
operated	O
by	O
InfoSpace	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
July	O
2016	O
,	O
InfoSpace	O
was	O
sold	O
by	O
parent	O
company	O
Blucora	O
to	O
OpenMail	O
for	O
$45	O
million	O
,	O
putting	O
MetaCrawler	B-Application
under	O
the	O
ownership	O
of	O
OpenMail	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2017	O
,	O
MetaCrawler	B-Application
relaunched	O
as	O
its	O
own	O
search	B-Application
engine	I-Application
.	O
</s>
