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This paper investigates the retrieval performance and necessity of major meta-image search engines (MISEs). Our study is realized in two phases. In the first phase, major image search engines (ISEs), namely, Google, Yahoo and Ask, are selected. Then, fifteen queries are determined from various topics and classified as one-, two- and three-word query groups. Each query is run on each ISE and first...