Web browser/Software that search several search engines at the same time

Question

Is there a software that I can install to perform search on many search engines/portal at the same time.

I'm doing a lot of research and I would need to check on google, bing, yahoo and so on at the same time.

Thank you very much!

Answer 1

There are services on the web for that kind of thing, aptly named Meta search engine. Wikipedia has a list.

Answer 2

Copernic Agent is what you're looking for. The basic version is free.

Answer 3

If you want to search each of the search engines individually you could use Shortmarks (a service I created). To search any number of search engines at once from the address bar, create a bundle and give it a keyword of say, s. Then you could type: !s <search phrase> in the address bar to open each of the search results pages in a different tab.