There have been programs which did this before google became so popular. Unfortunately I don't remember the name of the software, but it would query several sea

There have been programs which did this before google became so popular. Unfortunately I don't remember the name of the software, but it would query several search engines and show the results below each other. I remember it had some colors indicating the progress next to it - like green, when it found something on that engine. That was the time when there was also Software to find the cheapest provider for dialing in over modem line at a particular time of the day - because it was expensive and each minute counted.