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Programs that automatically submit your search request to several search engines simultaneously are called
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Metasearch engines
💡 Explanation:
Metasearch engines (like Dogpile, Metacrawler) do not maintain their own database. Instead, they forward user queries to multiple search engines simultaneously and aggregate the results. Webcrawlers and spiders are automated programs that browse the web to index pages, while 'hits' refers to search results, not a search tool.