| About Metasearch | Understanding Search Results | Search Tips |
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RCN understands the value of being able to search the Web with multiple engines at once. To accomplish this task, RCN utilizes InfoSpace metasearch technology to compile results from many of the Web's major search properties, delivering more relevant and comprehensive results every time you search.
The results returned from these engines include commercial (sponsored) and non-commercial results. RCN Search is designed to identify the intent of a user's search. If the search term (i.e. "buy roses") is determined to be commercial in nature, a blended mix of results weighted toward sponsored results would be displayed. In the case of a non-commercial term (i.e. "roses and aphids"), the blended mix of results would be weighted toward research-driven results.
Our search engine, provided by InfoSpace, returns results from a variety of partners, including: Google, Yahoo! Search, MSN and Ask Jeeves. |
Search Engines: A software program that searches a database by gathering and reporting information that contains or is related to specified terms. |
 |  | Search engines include Google, Yahoo! Search, MSN and Ask Jeeves. |
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Web Directories: Server(s) dedicated to indexing Internet Web pages and returning lists of pages that match particular queries. Directories are normally compiled manually, by user submission, and often involve an editorial selection and/or categorization process. |
| | Web directories searched include About and Looksmart. |
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Pay-For-Placement: Engines that return relevant sponsored listings. |
| | Paid search engines searched include Yahoo! Search Marketing and MIVA. |
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Other: Engines or databases that are metasearch specific for images, products, audio/MP3, and multimedia files, as well as Guaranteed Search Inclusion submissions. |
| | Vertical search engines include Yahoo! Search, Ditto, Singingfish, among others. |
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