Most Internet users are completely familiar with the use of search engines to assist them to quickly and easily find relevant information on the topic of their choice. The leading Internet search engines are Google®, Yahoo®, and Bing®. A meta-search engine, sometimes also referred to as a meta-engine, mega-engine or multi-engine search website, is a search engine website that queries multiple single purpose search engines websites and then consolidates the independent search engine results into their own meta or multi-engine search results. This provides the user with the ability to search multiple engines simultaneously instead of serially just one-at-a-time. A good example of a general all-purpose multi-engine search is Dogpile.
The meta-engine or multi-engine may use a Top Level Domain (TLD) extension of “.me” to signify the meta-engine or multi-engine mega search functionality. The “.me” TLD is not reserved for meta-engines (it is actually the Internet country code top-level domain, the ccTLD, for Montenegro). As with most two letter ccTLD's, the ".me" extension is rarely used for the official designated purpose as a country code.
Instead of being used widely as a country code, it is commonly used from a marketing and branding perspective to indicate that “the ME domain is all about YOU”. Powerfully branded domains are typically short and memorable exact matches to what the user is looking for and the .me extension fits this requirement quite nicely. It is also commonly employed as a TLD extension instead of .com, .net, .org, and other TLD’s by websites that offer a Multi-Engine, Mega-Engine, or Meta-Engine (ME) search and data source aggregation functionality.
The .me extension is a quality domain extension that can be used to signify either marketing concept to the site user. The .me ccTLD was named the fastest growing ccTLD in the 2012 DomainWire Stat Report. It continues to experience good growth today including such prestigious companies as Time (ti.me), WordPress (wp.me), Facebook (fb.me), and Visa (v.me) all getting in on the brandable concept.
The market value of the .me exact match brandable domains can range in the neighborhood of $20,000 to $70,000. And occasionally sales enter into even into the 6 figure sales price range. For instance, Meet.Me, was sold for half of a million dollars. Learn more about .me domain values and how to obtain a premium quality .me domain name here.
In addition to general all-purpose search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing there are also specialty purpose meta-engines (.me’s) that are used to scour the web for information from numerous sources including other web sites, xml and rss feeds, as well as application programmers interfaces (API’s) connected to the meta-engine. An example of a site with such meta-engine search capabilities for domain information searches is Function.me
A good example of a meta-engine in the travel and hotel booking niche is HotelReservations.me. HotelReservations.me™ presents live hotel rates and deals from numerous other hotel room suppliers, including travel and hotel websites, hotel chains, independent hoteliers, wholesale and aggregate hotel inventory suppliers. By using HotelReservations.me you can get access to book a hotel room at the best rates from numerous other hotel booking sources on the Internet.