How are results ranked in a meta-search engine?
Depending on your search criteria and the meta-search engine itself, results are ranked differently by a variety of methods according to the engines algorithm. The objective, of course, is to return results most relevant to the users query first. Each meta-search engine has its own method of ranking results. Most meta-search engines rank web pages according to how popular that page is ranked by its sources. If a page is ranked highly by its sources, most likely it will also be regarded as relevant by meta-search engines.
