You should use a metasearch engine if you need more results than
you would from a regular search engine. You can also use certain
metasearch engines like Ixquick or StartPage if you are concerned
with privacy. Metasearch engines are usually not search engines
themselves. They redirect traffic to actual search engines and then
return the results. That can help privacy since the largest search
engines record the details of your search. If you use a metasearch
engine, then all the large search engines would have is that the
metasearch engine performed a search on their sites using whatever
terms at whatever time. If the metasearch engine doesn't record
your search details, then it would be harder to trace the search
back to you.