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We know you might find this hard to believe, but Google is not the only search engine out there. No really. There are others. You might even have heard of a few, like Yahoo!, MSN, Ask, and even the oldie, but goody AltaVista.

SearchBoth is a website that lets you search multiple sites at once. But unlike Dogpile, SearchBoth doesn't spit out all the results in a single stream. Instead, you can compare your results side by side.

As you might guess from the search engine's name, you used to have access to just two sites: Google and Yahoo!. This month the company added support for more services, including all those listed above and MetaCrawler, LookSmart and WebCrawler to boot. There's also a new travel search feature that lets you compares results from several top travel sites and a yellowpages v. superpages online phone book faceoff.

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Search engines iconicized - Sputtr and Symbaloo

SputtrWeb sites that let you access multiple search engines are nothing new. Dogpile and similar services have been around for years.

But a couple of new multi-site search engines are making the search process prettier, if not more useful. Sputtr and Symbaloo let you search one site at a time, but from a central location. The idea is that you'll bookmark one of these sites, and then you'll never have to visit Google, Yahoo!, or any other search engine again. Sort of.

With Sputtr, you enter your search term in the box, then click the icon for the search engine or service (like eBay, YouTube, or StumbleUpond) that you want to search. Your result will pop up in the same window, or in a new window if you adjust your settings. You can customize the buttons available on the main page by selecting from dozens of additional search engines. But you cannot currently add your own sites.

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