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by astonex 2805 days ago
You mean you built a frontend for Google, not a search engine.
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JoshuaScript 2805 days ago
That's literally in the title. It says METASearch engine, not search engine. I have never claimed it was a search engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine

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thomasfoster96 2805 days ago
OP is being bit dismissive, but IMHO the key feature of a metasearch engine is the processing of results, not the interface. Filtering Google’s results is technically a metasearch engine... but it’s a fairly trivial example.
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