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Search engines have a system of algorithms that works on crawling the information written in the body of the HTML. Meta search engines have a system of algorithms that crawls the meta tags, meta title and meta description of the HTML

Examples for meta search engines are megaspider.com , metaspider.com , clasearch.com

Examples for search engines are Google.com , Bing.com , Avasearch.com, Yahoo.com

You also have meta-search engines for a number of specialist subjects such as navigatejob.com which is a job search engine.

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