A process and system for metasearching on a distributed network activated
by a request executed by a user on a client device to request a
metasearch engine to send a plurality of search queries to a plurality of
search engines the request specifying to which of the plurality of search
engines each of the plurality of search queries specified in the request
by the user is to be sent to, each of the plurality of search queries
comprising a keyword phrase, each of the keyword phrases comprising at
least one keyword specified in the request by the user, at least two of
the keyword phrases of the plurality of search queries being different
from each other, comprising incorporating, by the metasearch engine,
received search results into at least two different display lists
corresponding to the at least two different keyword phrases, and
communicating a response to the client device.