The system is built on 24 small-scale web crawlers under MetaGer's own control. Search queries are relayed to as many as 50 search engines. Their main Web results coming from
Microsoft Bing,
Mojeek and
Brave Search. The results are filtered, compiled and sorted before being presented to the user. Users can select the search engines to query, according to their individual choices among other options (such as "check for availability and sort by date"). Users can create personal blacklists to filter out websites. MetaGer provides access to their services only through encrypted connections. As of December 2013, there is also a
Tor Hidden Service that allows users to access the MetaGer search functionality from within the Tor network. Since February 2014, MetaGer additionally offers the option to open the result webpages anonymously. == References ==