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by nonrandomstring 1544 days ago
There's two I use. Nothing fancy like collecting and sorting results from multiple engines. Just a bash sequence.

alias se1="se1.com" alias se2="se2.com" www-browser se1 $1; www-browser se2 $1 ...

Arrange them in roughly the order best to worse. If a result isn't satisfactory I hit q (exit for my choice of browser) and it falls through to the next search engine.

The other is surf-raw (actually written by everyone's favourite political prisoner, Mr. Assange) You can change the "elvi" to be what you want, but imho it doesn't really offer much extra because you still need to remember the aliases you gave each search engine. A sequence in an alias file hides that from you so I just type

$ search "keywords about thing"

Of course it falls over when different search engines parse the urlstring in different ways.