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That's the joke. Those were meta search engines back in the day.

My favorite was Metasearch or Metacrawler or something like that. It would show you what other users were searching for in real time.

That was Metaspy, part of Metacrawler.

Source: I wrote Metaspy. That was almost 20 years ago!

w00t! big fan of metacrawler back in the day.