AnkaSearch is a Meta Search Utility (desktop application).

Problems in current web searches through popular search engines are:
- Search Engines use different algorithms and mechanisms to rank search results which are unique to each search engine. A search for 'Video Cards' at two popular search engines shows out of 100 results given by the two search engines only seventeen results are common, and the ranks of these seventeen common results are different in either of the engines. AnkaSearch launches parallel search in selected multipe search engines and the results of all the engines are aggregated and presented in a single list.
- Deep Web primarily comprises databases operated by universities, government, and trade bodies. AnkaSearch provides you direct access to these databases. These sites are not 'crawled' by search engines.
- "With web content doubling every two months and human beings' ability to digest information at a constant rate of 0.3 MB an hour, the need for automation is clear". (Ref: NQL Solutions). It is manually impossible for anyone to go through the hundreds of thousands of search results returned by search engines.

AnkaSearch, is intended to address the above listed problems of web searches and needs of 'power search users' like researchers, librarians, knowledge workers etc.

Features :

Fetches results from 70+ search engines, segragated into ten separate subject directories. The search engines can be selected based on subject of the search
Duplicate pages are removed
Aggreages results from mulitple sources
Faster downloads due to pipelining
Save selected downloaded pages, organize and manage the saved pages
Search within the downloaded result descriptions and pages
Advanced configuration features
Control the number of parallel connections to be opened, depending on your internet connection bandwidth
Specify the maximum CPU utilization used by AnkaSearch, not causing any other applications you might be using simultaneously to hang
AnkaSearch is a multithreaded application, which enables you to launch multiple searches simultaneously. Specify the maximum number of threads which can be used depending on the CPU configuration available.

Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003

System Requirements: Internet Connection, JRE 1.6.0 or higher