Telescope metasearch engine?

[Querulantus]

http://www3.telus.net/jacinablackbox/SwTele.html

"Telescope is a metasearch engine for Windows, which automates web
searching by combining results from several search engines. In
addition to general web searching, it can access results from web
directories, image search engines, news web sites, encyclopedias, and
free software archives. Telescope searches 38 search engines including
7 in the web category. Telescope supports boolean queries with OR,
NOT, and quotes, when querying search engines."

Comparisons: http://www3.telus.net/jacinablackbox/SwTeComp.html

110 Kb download (zip, no-install).
129 Kb download (exe, install)

Has anyone tried this?
Is it safe?

Querulantus

 

[Frank Bohan]

http://www3.telus.net/jacinablackbox/SwTele.html

"Telescope is a metasearch engine for Windows, which automates web
searching by combining results from several search engines. In
addition to general web searching, it can access results from web
directories, image search engines, news web sites, encyclopedias, and
free software archives. Telescope searches 38 search engines including
7 in the web category. Telescope supports boolean queries with OR,
NOT, and quotes, when querying search engines."

Comparisons: http://www3.telus.net/jacinablackbox/SwTeComp.html

110 Kb download (zip, no-install).
129 Kb download (exe, install)

Has anyone tried this?
Is it safe?

Querulantus

This is a new one to me, but sounds similar to A-Toolbar which I have found
very useful and seems to be completely safe.

http://www.metaeureka.com

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Frank Bohan
¶ Make your life like toilet paper, long and useful.

 

[Frank Delamarre]

"Frank Bohan" replied to the OT's question:

This is a new one to me, but sounds similar to A-Toolbar which I have found
very useful and seems to be completely safe.

http://www.metaeureka.com

That's 15x the size of the Telescope download but A-Toolbar has al lot
more features. Telescope only queries search engines. I had a quick
look at it and it looks OK, nothing fancy but it seems to do the job
quite well and very fast, and no adware. Don't know about privacy yet
though.

Frank

 

[Frank Delamarre]

Telescope only queries search engines.

I was wrong, it searches more sites and it is configurable. Actually
Telesope is beginning to look more and more interesting, and it's
definitely Boomer-sized at 120 Kb.

Frank