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Rather than just another search tool, why not add some basic "AI" into the mix:

eg: searching "restaurant near Vancouver, BC" would use Yelp, "Facebook" would use google, and so on.

in other words, your search aggregator should auto-detect the context which the user is searching, then use the best platform to perform that search.

How would you approach this problem? No need to be technical.. I'm curious as I'm working on something similar past 2 years or so.. Thanks

Not exactly sure - but you could have datasets of key words and if those words match then you choose the search engine. And maybe there's some learning over time...

Maybe you can find a way to rank the individual search results. Some kind of text search, and compare these results. Then, whichever site search engines results gets the highest score can be displayed first.

Or, you can return individual results from different search engines on the same page.

That is a very interesting approach. I believe Searchme did something similar.

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